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Mortality Among Danish Patients with a Hospital Diagnosis of Overweight or Obesity Over a 40-Year Period.

Sigrid Bjerge GribsholtDóra Körmendiné FarkasReimar Wernich ThomsenBjørn RichelsenHenrik Toft Sorensen
Published in: Clinical epidemiology (2022)
Patients with overweight/obesity had a substantially increased long-term mortality, mainly due to diabetes, cardiovascular, and respiratory diseases. The excess mortality decreased during recent decades. Age, comorbidities, and socioeconomic factors modified the association.
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