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Long Term Mobidity And Mortality Of Adolescent Obesity: A Follow-Up Of Third Harvard Growth Study Participants Of 1922 To 1935, Aviva Must Ph.D., Paul F. Jacques Sc.D., Gerard E. Dallal Ph.D., Carl J. Bajema Ph.D., William H. Dietz M.D., Ph.D
Long Term Mobidity And Mortality Of Adolescent Obesity: A Follow-Up Of Third Harvard Growth Study Participants Of 1922 To 1935, Aviva Must Ph.D., Paul F. Jacques Sc.D., Gerard E. Dallal Ph.D., Carl J. Bajema Ph.D., William H. Dietz M.D., Ph.D
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Background. Overweight in adults is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. In contrast, the long-term effect of overweight in adolescence on morbidity and mortality is not known.
Methods. We studied the relation between overweight and morbidity and mortality in 508 lean or overweight adolescents 13 to 18 years old who participated in the Harvard Growth Study of 1922 to 1935. Overweight adolescents were defined as those with a body-mass index that on two occasions was greater than the 75th percentile in subjects of the same age and sex in a large national survey. Lean adolescents were defined as those with …