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Overweight Kids Often Become Obese, Unhealthy Adults
Date:12/5/2007

young adults. It would raise the death toll from obesity-related coronary heart disease by 19 percent.

"To some extent, we're not surprised. We know it's not good to be overweight at any age but we were really struck by the magnitude of this increase," said Bibbins-Domingo. "We're modeling a young adult population 35 to 50 years. These are people who should be working and raising families, not worrying about heart disease, and we're suggesting more will be hospitalized for heart attacks, will need chronic medication to manage high blood pressure and high cholesterol, and many more will actually die before the age of 50."

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To learn more about the government's We Can! Program regarding childhood obesity, visit the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.



SOURCES: Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor, medicine, epidemiology and biostatistics, and Robert Wood Johnson Harold Amos Medical Faculty Scholar, University of California, San Francisco; Thomas R. Kimball, M.D., pediatric cardiologist, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Ohio; Dec. 6, 2007, New England Journal of Medicine


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