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Maintaining or losing weight after becoming overweight or obese does not reduce the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) or death.
Weight management strategies may not be effective for reducing CHD or mortality risk in this demographic.
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We estimated that maintaining or losing weight after becoming overweight or obese does not reduce the risk of CHD or death in this cohort of middle-age US women.
Why this rating
Based on the use of a large cohort study (Nurses' Health Study).
Source
Weight loss and coronary heart disease
Goodarz Danaei et al. · Epidemiology · 2015
DOI 10.1097/ede.0000000000000428
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