Teens Whose BMI Is In Upper Range Of Normal May Still Be At Increased Risk Of Dying From CV Diseases As They Reach Middle Age.

reports that the investigators found that “after adjusting for multiple confounders, adults with an adolescent BMI in the obesity range (≥95th percentile) had an almost 5-fold risk of death from coronary heart disease (HR 4.9), a more than threefold risk of death from total cardiovascular causes (HR 3.5), and a more than twofold risk of death from stroke (HR 2.6) compared with adults with adolescent BMI in the 5th to 24th percentile.” However, “even those adults at the high range of normal BMI (50th to 74th percentile) as adolescents were more likely than their peers with lower BMIs (in the 5th to 24th percentile) to be at risk of death from coronary heart disease (CHD) than those adolescents on the lower end of normal BMI.” http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/Prevention/57345