Excellent graph showing increased risk of death with increasing body weight

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Thursday, September 04, 2008 2:55 pm Email this article
Here is an excellent, simple graph showing the increased risk of death as weight increases.

This graph is from a 1988 paper by George Bray, MD and others that was published in the Western Journal of Medicine.

REFERENCE

Bray G, Gray D. Obesity. Part I—pathogenesis. West J Med. 1988 Oct, 149(4):429-41.

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