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Count the dead, measure the living

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Populations all around the world are becoming more obese, but some are doing so much faster than others. Yet even in seriously affected populations, blood pressure, cholesterol and coronary heart disease death rates continue to fall. Is obesity a trifling matter, or is it just less telling than everything else put together?

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  2. School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Suite 300 West Bank Office Building, 1300 South Second Street, Minneapolis, 55454, MN, USA

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Whitlock, G., Huxley, R. Count the dead, measure the living. Nat Rev Endocrinol 7, 317–318 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrendo.2011.59

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