Obese, non-smoking women likely to die early

While established research has shown clearly that smoking is linked to premature death and health inequalities, it was not known which causes of death are related to the social position of women who have never smoked, said the paper.

To investigate this area further, the authors, led by Dr Laurence Gruer from NHS Health Scotland, reviewed the cases of 3,613 women who had never smoked.

The results showed that the women in the lower occupational groups were more likely to die of diseases of the heart and circulation, but not cancer. They were also more likely to be severely obese and those who were severely obese had the highest death rates.

The authors also found that, compared with the smokers in the overall study, the women who never smoked were much more likely to be overweight or obese.

This suggested that high smoking rates 35 years ago probably concealed the true extent of obesity in non-smoking women and that the decline in smoking rates in recent decades may have contributed to the increase in overweight and obesity, said the authors.

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