The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 No 7342 p350
26 March 2005

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Obesity reduces life expectancy in the US population by one-third to three-quarters of a year, researchers estimate (New England Journal of Medicine 2005; 352:1138). This could rise to two to five years in the coming decades, they say. Two-thirds of the adult US population are currently overweight or obese, a figure equalled in England.