MS risk for obese teens; HEALTH.OBESE o·bese adj. Extremely fat; very overweight. obese characterized by obesity. obese adjective Characterized by obesity, see there; excessively fat teenage girls run a greater risk of developing multiple sclerosis multiple sclerosis (MS), chronic, slowly progressive autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system attacks the protective myelin sheaths that surround the nerve cells of the brain and spinal cord (a process called demyelination), resulting in damaged areas . An American study asked nearly 240,000 nurses for their weight and height at the age of 18 and charted their progress over 40 years. Those with a body mass index of 30 and over were found to be more than twice as likely to develop the disease of the nervous system. Study leader Kassandra Munger, of the Harvard School of Public Health The Harvard School of Public Health is (colloquially, HSPH) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Longwood Area of the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Mission Hill, next to Harvard Medical School and Cambridge, Massachusetts, , said: "Weight during adolescence adolescence, time of life from onset of puberty to full adulthood. The exact period of adolescence, which varies from person to person, falls approximately between the ages 12 and 20 and encompasses both physiological and psychological changes. , rather than childhood or adulthood, is critical in determining risk." |
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