{"id":180623,"date":"2010-01-14T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021519673330908753.post-474437514155155396"},"modified":"2010-01-14T11:32:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T16:32:12","slug":"obesity-rise-hurts-health-more-than-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/180623","title":{"rendered":"Obesity Rise Hurts Health More Than Smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"

America’s obesity epidemic now poses an equal or greater threat to health-related quality of life than smoking, according to a new study.<\/span><\/p>\n

Researchers say that as obesity in America has risen dramatically in recent years — and smoking rates have declined — the contribution of obesity to the burden of disease and shortening of life has increased while smoking’s role has decreased.<\/span><\/p>\n

The study showed that from 1993 to 2008, the proportion of smokers among U.S. adults declined by 18.5% while the proportion of obese adults increased 85%.<\/span><\/p>\n

Using information from nationwide annual health-related quality-of-life surveys conducted during the same time period, researchers calculated the Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) lost due to these two major health risk factors.<\/span><\/p>\n

The results, published in the American Journal of Preventive Health, show that smoking-related QALYs lost remained relatively stable during this time period at 0.0438, or 16 days of healthy life lost per adult population.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as the obesity epidemic increased the quality-of-life problems caused by obesity<\/a> increased and accounted for 0.0464 QALYs lost.<\/span><\/p>\n

Researchers say smoking had a bigger impact on deaths while obesity had a bigger effect on illness. Read more…<\/span><\/a>
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America’s obesity epidemic now poses an equal or greater threat to health-related quality of life than smoking, according to a new study. Researchers say that as obesity in America has risen dramatically in recent years — and smoking rates have declined — the contribution of obesity to the burden of disease and shortening of life […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":967,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/967"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}