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And nversely, also found that gay women tend to be heavier than their heterosexual rearchers termed that gay women were more than twice as likely as straight women to be obe, while gay men were 50 percent ls likely to be obe pared to their heterosexual unterparts, acrdg to a report published the Amerin Journal of Public Health. After sctizg a health survey of more than 67, 000 Massachetts rints between the ag of 18 and 64, the rearchers found that 14 percent of gay men were obe vers 21 percent of straight men. The oppose was te of gay women: 26 percent were found to be obe, as pared wh 17 percent of the straight women.

The rearchers also found that both gay men and gay women were more likely to be current smokers pared to their heterosexual unterparts. And gay women were more likely to have multiple heart disease risk factors than straight women. Earlier studi that looked at health the gay muny foced mostly on sexually transmted diseas and mental health, rather than on chronic illns like oby and heart disease, says the study’s lead thor Kerh Conron, an associate rearch scientist at Northeastern Universy and a rearch fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health.

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