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Want to pencil in a healthy target weight for that New Year's resolution? A new analysis of data from 1.46 million adults has zeroed in on the body mass index (BMI) with the lowest risk of death from any cause—and they aren't the ones that most tilt the scales downward.
The best body mass indexes for low mortality rates
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Those at the upper reaches of the BMI scale had the highest mortality risks. Obese women (those with BMIs of 30 to 34.9) who had never smoked and didn't report any disease at the outset of the study period were about 44 percent more likely to die during the follow-up period than those with BMIs of 20 to 24.9. That likelihood doubled to 88 percent for otherwise healthy women with BMIs of 35 to 39.9, the researchers found. As of 2008, some 17 percent of non-Hispanic women in the U.S. had BMIs 35 and above, the researchers noted in the paper.
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