Statistical error exaggerated deaths from obesity in US: officials
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A US government report released in March on the number of deaths related to obesity in the United States exaggerated the number due to a statistical error, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement.
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Overweight people have a lower death rate because they are less likely to die from certain diseases, a report says.
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now admits it erred in its widely publicized estimate that 400,000 Americans die each year from obesity.
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Nov. 24, 2004 - A new study says obesity may increase the risk of developing the heart rhythm disorder artrial fibrillation. But, on the other side of the coin, the AP is reporting that earlier government
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A widely reported study released earlier this year overstated the increase in obesity-related U.S. deaths by about 35,000, a U.S. government health agency said on Tuesday in admitting the miscalculation.
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Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, with two-thirds of adults and some 25 million children obese or overweight, and the fatness of the land threatening US competitiveness, a report published Monday showed.
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Several government and public health experts on Tuesday responded to an internal CDC investigation that determined a widely quoted agency study on obesity that was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association inflated the number of deaths
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A new study suggests a man's weight may affect the accuracy of a common test to detect prostate cancer, leading researchers to warn that doctors could be missing the dangerous cancer in obese men.
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Obesity is on its way to being deadlier than smoking as a cause of cancer, a leading researcher said Friday. Being obese is currently associated with about 14 percent of cancer deaths in men and 20 percent in women, compared with about 30 percent each for smoking, Dr. Walter C. Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health, told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Nearly two out of three Americans are overweight/obese and at risk for diabetes, heart disease and other illnesses associated with obesity.
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In a nation where obesity is the  second-leading cause of death, 33 million Americans don't know  where their next meal is coming from -- a year-round paradox  that only becomes more pronounced during the holidays.
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Louis Aronne, president of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity, says whether obesity surpasses tobacco as the leading cause of preventable deaths &quot;this year or next year
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In a nation where obesity is the second-leading cause of death, 33 million Americans don't know where their next meal is coming from -- a year-round paradox that only becomes more pronounced during the holidays.
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Nov. 8 - A new report card on the nation&#39;s health shows the prevalence of obesity is up 97% since 1990. It shows nearly one in 4 Americans is 30 pounds or more overweight.
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Hispanics in the United States are more  likely to be overweight or obese, develop diabetes and die from  strokes, AIDS and liver disease than whites, federal officials  said on Thursday.
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The US National Institutes of Health said on Tuesday it was launching a systematic campaign to fight obesity, which now affects close to two-thirds of the US population and threatens to overtake smoking as the leading cause of death
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NEW YORK  - As body weight increases in men, the risk of death from suicide falls markedly, new research hints.