Obesity can cuts down the life span of an obese person, a new study suggested. Moderated obesity means almost 50 to 60 pounds above then the ideal body mass index can shorten three to four years of life and the most American middle-age men having the extra 150 pounds than their ideal weight which can shorten life span by ten years.

Thought this level is not as much common as smoking as smoking is also known to reduce the life span by ten years, so both reasons are equally dangerous.

For the study, Whitlock the lead researcher analyzed the data of 894,576 people with 25 BMI. According to the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, people are considered overweight when they have a BMI over 25 and 29.9 and obese after crossing BMI 30 and more.

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The case of childbirth complications are greatly increasing in the women due to continues bleeding after delivery, a new study conducted in Australia suggested.

In the review of hospital data from 1999 to 2004 of more than 500,000 mothers, researchers came to know that the ratio of adverse maternal complications have risen up to four percent.

The rate of complications after pregnancy, in 1999 was 11.5 in 1000 deliveries the complications include renal failure, loss of blood, or jee

In the 2004 the maternal complications elevated to the 13.8 percent.

Researchers also noticed that the increase in complications was typically in the women who suffered excessive blood loss (haemorrhaging) after delivery.

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