Weight in middle age influences the risk of death from heart disease
A study conducted by researchers from Harvard Medical School (USA), showed that obesity in adolescence increases the risk of obesity in adulthood and likely to die prematurely from heart disease.
But if a grown man, a former fat boy will be able to lose weight in middle age, the risk of death from heart ailments will decrease.
Experts analyzed the information about 19 thousand graduates of Harvard University, enrolled in college in the period from 1916 to 1950. In the study, Harvard Alumni Health Study supervision of all these people was conducted an average of 82 years. During this time, repeatedly documented habits of the subjects, their body mass index and risk of getting heart problems.
As it turned out, the most well-fed young men often become obese or other obese adults. Moreover, obese freshmen almost twice the risk of dying from heart disease within a few decades when compared with those who enter the university with a normal weight. Increased risk of premature death were those who in the first year had a certain amount of extra pounds.
When the researchers tested how much weight each subject had in middle age, found that the degree of risk varies. So, men, coming to Harvard c overweight or obese, but grown thin to normal weight in middle age, no longer had an increased risk of death from heart ailments. Thus, body mass index in middle age was a very accurate predictor of death from heart disease.
Being overweight in midlife increased the risk of dying by 25%, and obesity - 60%.
Although the study examined only men, scientists believe that all this is true for women, since the biological effects of obesity and obesity on risk of heart disease in both sexes equally.
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| Category: Medical World News | (03.11.2011)
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