Obesity Increases Risk of Heart Failure
April 9th, 2009 by Nina Thompson, ARNP
Being overweight or obese raises a person’s risk of developing heart failure, according to a recent analysis of two large Swedish studies, from the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Unit of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
In these two studies, waist size was also a factor for women, but not for men. In women, body mass index was a risk factor for heart failure, but only among those with the largest waists. Whereas for men, waist size was not a factor, but for each one-point increase in BMI, the risk of heart failure increased by 4%.
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Source: “Heart Failure” Circulation, April 7, 2009
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