Refined obesity, smoking exposure, and lipid metrics in mortality risk assessment: a nationwide cohort analysis
Bora Lee, Soojin Im, Sungho Won · 2026
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Bora Lee, Soojin Im, and Sungho Won questioned whether the usual yardsticks for body weight, smoking, and blood fats sort people by death risk as well as sharper ones could. Loose definitions can mislead studies, so they tested refined measures in two large Korean health cohorts linked to death records, covering hundreds of thousands of people.
Their refinements split obesity by belly fat as well as body mass, scaled smoking exposure against age, and combined several fat ratios instead of single values. In the main analyses, underweight people carried higher death risk across all age groups. The authors argue that tidier definitions change who counts as high risk, which matters for both doctors counseling patients and researchers pooling health data.
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| CREATOR | Bora Lee, Soojin Im, Sungho Won |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 44183 |
| LICENSE | CC_BY |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS |