"Weight Cycling, Weight Gain, and Risk of Hypertension in Women."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in American Journal of Epidemiology, "To assess prospectively the relation between body mass index, weight gain, repeated intentional weight losses, and the risk of self-reported hypertension, the authors studied 46,224 women who were participants in the Nurses Health Study II, who were free of hypertension in 1993, and who completed questions on intentional weight losses between 1989 and 1993. Women who reported they had intentionally lost {{>=}} 20 lbs (9 kg) {{>=}} 3 times were classified as severe weight cyclers. Women who had intentionally lost {{>=}} 10 lbs (4.5 kg) {{>=}} 3 times, but who did not meet the...

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