Association of body mass index with mortality

[throwthere]

Actual link (full text article available for free)-- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-022-01211-2 .

oa.mg appears to be some sort of search aggregator that wants you to buy the article for $17 even though it's open access (freely available).

[neogodless]

It has now been re-submitted with the nature.com link

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32643396

[Quekid5]

Sounds like a good reason to perhaps literally ban links to oa.mg on HN?

[jaimehrubiks]

Lol, is that even legal?

[murphyslab]

The link should be changed to the DOI or a direct link to the journal article:

- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-022-01211-2

- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-022-01211-2

Not sure why OP linked to this index. The article is Open Access, yet this intermediary site has a prominent "Buy article PDF →" link at the top which tries to sell it for $17. OA.mg seems like some kind of scam.

[neogodless]

89% of the OP's comments contain a link to oa.mg

So do most of their recent submissions. Presumably they have a vested interest in oa.mg selling access to papers.

They previously linked to citationsy.com which came from the same team.

[fpiacenza]

This might point as BMI not being the best metric to define obesity.

I bet people with high BMI but low fasting glucose and low c-reactive protein are mostly athletes, people who weight a lot due higher muscular weight. It wouldn't be surprising they are healthier.

[twelve40]

I have a weird feeling that the vast majority of high-BMI people somehow don't really fall into the athlete category.