{"id":23960,"date":"2017-03-26T11:30:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T06:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/?p=23960"},"modified":"2017-10-13T12:59:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T07:29:12","slug":"high-bmi-could-be-a-reason-for-an-early-death-study-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/high-bmi-could-be-a-reason-for-an-early-death-study-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"High BMI Could Be A Reason For An Early Death, Study Reveals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23961 size-full\" title=\"High BMI Could Be A Reason For An Early Death, Study Reveals!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/rsz_shutterstock_574205773.jpg\" alt=\"e pharmacy\" width=\"630\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>People with BMI above or below the ideal range found to be at an increased risk of early death due to health conditions, study suggests \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-In a study, conducted by the <strong>researchers of Harvard<\/strong>, evaluated the pooled data from 239 studies of more than 10 million people across 32 countries. The study excluded people who smoked, had a chronic condition or died within five years of follow up, reducing the sample size to 4 million people.<\/p>\n<p>-As per the study, people with a <strong>BMI\u00a0ranging between 20-24.9<\/strong> were at <strong>a decreased risk of dying<\/strong> due to the common health problems. On the contrary, those with a BMI above or below the ideal range, were at an increased risk of early death.<\/p>\n<p>-As per experts, an<strong> ideal Body Mass Index (BMI)<\/strong> is expected to fall in the <strong>range from 18.5-24.9.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-Findings were published in <em>The Lancet<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: The Lancet<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23961\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/rsz_shutterstock_574205773.jpg\" alt=\"e pharmacy\" width=\"630\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[202],"class_list":["post-23960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1mg-news","tag-vitamins-minerals-nutrients"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>High BMI Could Be A Reason For An Early Death, Study Reveals! 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