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Please describe the mortality rate for morbidly obese women?

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Dr. William Haynes answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine - Endocrinology

About 3-fold higher: According to this paper a woman in her 30's who has morbid obesity (bmi more than 40) is 3.3 fold more likely to die than a woman of the same age who has a bmi of under 25. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10227319.

Answered 6/21/2017

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