That may be so, I have read the reports but not the paper, however I have to
say that in terms of risk and statistics, in any event where another event
increases the event even by as much as 500%, if the original event is in
itself relatively rare, a five times chance of copping the first event due
to the second is still rare.
This kind of study is not particularly useful as leaving aside the problems
of BMI as a measure of anything (for most of my life until my forties I
would have appeared undernourished) there are multiple risk factors with
being overweight, not in the least being unable to sit comfortably in a
standard train seat on a pendolino and to single out MS seems to say
something about the psychology and perception of MS held by the researchers
as a particular folk demon of pathology along with the folk demon of
obesity. Heck it is the research equivalent in folk demology of Frankenstein
meets the Wolfman in Hollywood, we need to be scared, very scared ......
Don't go to McDonalds because you will never be able to play the violin
again, and don't smoke weed because you will become the next Peter
Sutcliffe.
Statistics prove beyond doubt that the longer one lives the sooner one will
die.
Larry
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> Subject: MEDICAL: CONDITIONS: MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS : MEDICAL:
> CONDITIONS: OBESITY: Adolescent Obesity Boosts Multiple Sclerosis Risk
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> MEDICAL: CONDITIONS: MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS:
> MEDICAL: CONDITIONS: OBESITY:
> Adolescent Obesity Boosts Multiple Sclerosis Risk
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>
> Adolescent Obesity Boosts Multiple Sclerosis Risk
> Food Consumer
> http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Non-food/Lifestyle/
> adolescent_obesity_boosts_multiple_sclerosis_risk_2401100121.html>
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> A shorter URL for the above link:
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> <http://tinyurl.com/ycdtmkx>
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> One recent study published in the Nov. 2009 issue of Neurology suggests
> that obesity during childhood and adolescence may increase the prevalence
> of MS.
>
> The study led by K. L. Munger and colleagues at Harvard School of Public
> Health in Boston, Massachusetts examined the association between obesity
> during childhood, adolescence and adulthood, and the risk of multiple
> sclerosis.
>
> Study subjects included 121,700 women in the Nurses' Health Study and
> 116,671 women in Nurses' Health Study II. The researchers analyzed data on
> subject's body weight at age 18 and body mass index (BMI) at baseline and
> confirmed 593 MS cases.
>
> Obesity at age 18, defined as having BMI greater than 30 kg/m2, was found
> associated with more than twofold increased risk of MS. While having a
> large body size at ages 5 or 10 was not associated with the risk, a large
> body size at age 20 was correlated with a 96 percent increased risk for
> the disease.
>
> Munger and colleagues concluded that "obese adolescents have an increased
> risk of developing multiple sclerosis" and "this result suggests that
> prevention of adolescent obesity may contribute to reduced MS risk."
>
>
> <snip>
>
>
> Source:
>
> Neurology. 2009 Nov 10;73 (19):1543-50.
>
> Body size and risk of MS in two cohorts of US women.
>
> Munger KL, Chitnis T, Ascherio A.
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