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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (3175)	12/10/2007 3:32:53 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

In a shocking report in the New England Journal of Medicine, Danish researchers link high body mass index at ages 7-13, to the development of heart disease in adulthood. I haven't read the report, and I certainly haven't seen (and perhaps don't have the ability to fully understand) the raw data, but I can't see how there is any solid basis for their conclusion. Even if they have the data for body mass index among at 7-13 for current adults, and it shows a strong correlation from early high BMI to adult heart attacks, higher BMI is hardly the only change. I'm rather skeptical about this study. (Which doesn't mean obesity, or even specifically child obesity is not a problem)