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Smoking and body mass are together linked to 226 medical conditions

Smoking and our body mass index - whether underweight, overweight or obese - may be involved in the onset of everything from heart failure and hernias to sleep apnoea and nail disorders

7 October 2022

Smoking and our body mass index may cause more than 200 medical conditions — Smoking and our body mass index may cause more than 200 medical conditions
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Our smoking status and body mass index (BMI) are together linked to 226 medical conditions, from heart failure and hernias to sleep apnoea and nail disorders.

at the University of Oxford used data on 500,000 participants of the UK Biobank study to estimate the extent to which smoking or our BMI influences our risk of various conditions. your weight is healthy.

In 11 of the 226 conditions, smoking or our…

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