Vital Signs: On the Scales: Suicide Found to Be Less Likely in Heavier People
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Health researchers have found a strong association between higher body mass index and a lower risk of suicide.
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FRIDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDayNews) -- New research confirms the worst fears of those who worry about putting on extra pounds: Severely overweight people are much more likely to report poor sex lives.
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Very obese people are as unhealthy, and probably as likely to die, as patients with heart failure, US researchers have reported. A second
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Overweight and obese adolescents may be more likely to have physical problems than their normal-weight peers but they don't seem to be worse off mentally, according to national study findings.
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THURSDAY, June 14 (HealthDay News) - Chronically troubled sleep may be a marker for an increased risk for suicide in the elderly, a new report suggests.
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WHAT THEY FOUND: Obese patients with blunt trauma injuries caused by car accidents, motorcycle falls and assault were five times more likely to die than other patients with similar injuries.
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Being overweight boosts the risk of dying from diabetes and kidney disease but not cancer or heart disease, and carrying some extra pounds appears actually to protect against a host of other causes of death, federal researchers reported today.
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BEING born to a teenage mother can double a personâs risk of committing suicide, new research has claimed. Such people were twice as likely to kill themselves in later life than those whose mothers gave
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People who put on a few extra pounds may be able to blame a lack of sleep for the added weight, according to two separate studies published on Monday.
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Elderly people who are obese appear  to have a lower risk of falling ill with tuberculosis compared  to those who are underweight or of average weight, according to  an extensive geriatric study in Hong Kong.
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Americans are a bit taller and much heavier than they were in the early 1960s, says a report released Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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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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Extremely obese people suffering from depression or anxiety tend to lose less weight after obesity surgery than mentally healthy people, researchers reported Thursday in a study that suggests such patients could benefit treatment beforehand.
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Obese heart attack and angina patients are more likely to survive after treatment, research suggests.
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In this article, we highlight some of the methodological issues that arise when conducting research into the prevalence of deliberate self-harm. We provide an overview of the literature, focusing on gender ...
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NEW YORK  - The amount of time people spend   sleeping may affect their weight, study results suggest.
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Exercise is not enough to offset the increased death risk associated with being obese, research suggests. A study of more than 116,000 women nurses found physical activity did not totally compensate for the higher death risk associated with being obese.