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>>69119 Thanks for the link, Guil.
I just started searching for text from the actual study itself (fucking JAMA), but at the moment it looks to me that it didn't account for improvements in diagnosing/treating heart disease-related issues since the 1970s. This is relevant because 1.) this appears to be a meta-study that looks at data from numerous other surveys going back to the 70s, 2.) cardiovascular problems are particularly germane to the mortality of moderately overweight middle-aged people, and 3.) because of advances over the past three decades, many more people today survive heart attacks than did in, say, 1973.
tl;dr At the moment I am extremely sceptical of media reports regarding this study, but I haven't had a chance to actually look at the thing itself, so caveat anon-emptor.
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