Over Weight == heart attack

well there is a bad news for the heavier persons right from the discovery health news that the Heavier People Have Heart Attacks Earlier, according to recent studies it is being observed that the fatter you are, the more likely you are to have a heart attack earlier in life.
According to the Dr. Eric D. Peterson,(Professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center's) - "Basically, it is showing that as people got progressively more obese, the rate at which they had heart attacks early went up dramatically," The findings of the research are published in the Sept. 16 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

There are two findings by these studies that the persons having obesity more than normal looking particularly at body mass index (BMI).The average age of the first heart attack for any people with a Body Mass Index of 18.5 or under was 74.6 years. with BMI of 40 or over, it was 58.7 years.

The age of the persons at which a first heart attack occurred went up steadily at increasing pace with increasing BMI -- 3.5 years earlier for a BMI of 25 to 30; 6.8 years earlier for a BMI 30 to 35; 9.4 years for a BMI of 35 to 40; and 12 years earlier for a BMI 40 or higher.

The fact which is stated by the Dr. Heinrich Taegtmeyer, professor of medicine in cardiology at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center here is that heart muscle in obese diabetic individuals can be mobilized by eating less.









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Weight and their threats
Learn more about obesity and its ill effects from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.