Media coverage: Weight trajectories and obesity onset between 17 and 60 years of age, and cause-specific mortality: the Obesity and Disease Development Sweden (ODDS) pooled cohort study

In the study involving over 600,000 people, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have investigated how changes in weight between the ages of 17 and 60 are linked to the risk of dying from various diseases. The results show a clear pattern: weight gain early in adulthood has the greatest impact.

Lund university press release:

Early weight gain can have lifelong consequences | Lund University

Tidiga kilon kan få livslånga konsekvenser | Lunds universitet

Forskare bakom stor studie: Vid denna ålder bör du vara extra uppmärksam på din vikt i samband med för tidig död | illvet.se

Early weight gain is linked to lifelong health consequences | ScienceDaily

Weight gain in certain decade of life may be more dangerous, study suggests – Local News

Weight gain in your 20s may raise your risk of early death – Earth.com

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