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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: heart disease + obese people + heart  Related to the article below (Last Update: 5/5/2008)


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Half of people carry 'fat gene'
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom -
It is estimated that 20 per cent of men and 25 per cent of women in Britain are obese, and that as many as 30000 people die from related conditions each ...
Gene sequence puts half of UK population at greater risk of ... guardian.co.uk
FAT? BLAME YOUR GENES SAY DOCTORS UK Express
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Enews 2.0
The reason fat people find it hard to lose weight is found
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - May 4, 2008
Professor Jaspal Kooner, the paper's senior author from the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, says: "Finding such a close ...
A moment on the lips... Science News
Fat Cells Renewed Yearly in Process That May Lead to Treatment Bloomberg
Fat Cells Set By Adolescence Study Shows InjuryBoard.com
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In Africa, Heart Disease And Its Risk Factors Are Expanding
Medical News Today, UK -
Many types of heart disease as well as some of its associated risk factors, which are traditionally only associated with high-income countries, ...
Can Women be fat and fit?
Ivanhoe, FL -
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Being overweight or obese puts people at higher risk for heart disease. So does lack of physical activity. But getting more active can ...
Overweight Women Need More Than Exercise to Save Heart
HeartZine, UK - May 4, 2008
For a long time now, overweight and obese patients have been advised to exercise if they wish to keep their risk of heart disease down. ...
A healthier city
The Age, Australia -
The trouble is that chronic diseases such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease can't be pinned on a convenient rodent or quarantined in a particular suburb ...
Obesity leads to heart-damaging inflammation, researchers find
CBC.ca, Canada - May 2, 2008
Lima said that doctors should look for signs of inflammation in patients who are obese to prevent the development of heart disease. ...
Study In 7000 Men And Women Ties Obesity, Inflammatory Proteins To ...
Science Daily (press release) - May 1, 2008
"The biological effects of obesity on the heart are quite profound," says senior study investigator Jo?o Lima, MD "Even if obese people feel otherwise ...
More People Choosing Prevention Over Pills
Hartford Courant, United States -
Her cholesterol is at a normal level, she says, but she has continued with the medication because it also has a protective effect on the heart. ...
Less than 6 hours sleep 'increases heart risk'
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - May 1, 2008
Heart disease kills 105000 people in Britain each year and 2.6 million people are known to be living with the condition. A team at the University of ...
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The fetal origins of coronary heart disease -
DJP BARKER - European Heart Journal, 1997 - Eur Soc Cardiology
... of the disease (20%) was in people who weighed 5 ... conclude that risk of coronary heart
disease is defined by ... glucose tolerance, is greater in obese subjects, the ...

American Heart Association Call to Action: Obesity as a Major Risk Factor for Coronary Heart Disease -
RH Eckel, RM Krauss - Circulation, 1998 - Am Heart Assoc
... because so few effective strategies exist to help people who are already obese lose
weight and ... of obesity and its link to coronary heart disease, we urge ...

Sudden death as a result of heart disease in morbid obesity. -
J Duflou, R Virmani, I Rabin, A Burke, A Farb, J … - American Heart Journal, 1995 - pt.wkhealth.com
... Similar to obese people, patients with hypertension and myocardial ... have been implicated:
acute heart failure with ... in the absence of coronary artery disease.25. ...

… Management of the Metabolic Syndrome An American Heart Association/National Heart, Lung, and Blood … -
SM Grundy, JI Cleeman, SR Daniels, KA Donato, RH … - Circulation, 2005 - Am Heart Assoc
... Association (AHA) and the National Heart, Lung, and ... associated with worsening of
dyslipidemia in obese people. ... greater risk for cardiovascular disease, 63?73 ...

Treatment of obesity: need to focus on high risk abdominally obese patients -
JP Despres? - BMJ, 2001 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... of high density lipoprotein cholesterol in these viscerally obese people is the ... 15
this ratio being a powerful predictor of risk of coronary heart disease. 16. ...

Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics-2006 Update A Report From the American Heart Association … -
T Thom, N Haase, W Rosamond, VJ Howard, J Rumsfeld … - Circulation, 2006 - Am Heart Assoc
... for education and income, these young people had the ... observed among overweight and
obese groups. ... diseases, including coronary artery disease, heart failure and ...

Overexpression of the obese(ob) gene in adipose tissue of human obese subjects -
F Loennqvist, P Arner, L Nordfors, M Schalling - Nature Medicine, 1995 - nature.com
... in situ hybridization histochemistry and report on overexpression in obese people. ...
& Coppack, SW Insulin resistance, adipose tissue and coronary heart disease. ...

… of Childhood Obesity to Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors in Adulthood: The Bogalusa Heart Study -
DS Freedman, LK Khan, WH Dietz, SR Srinivasan, GS … - Pediatrics, 2001 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... among normal-weight children who become obese in adulthood ... and HL 32194 from the
National Heart, Lung, and ... and by funds from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

[PDF] Obesity in the new millennium -
JM Friedman - Nature, 2000 - mcdb.colorado.edu
... In addition to suffering poor health and an increased risk of illnesses such as
hypertension and heart disease, obese people are often stigmatized socially. ...
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… the lipid pattern the key factor for the low coronary heart disease rate in people of African origin … -
R Zoratti - European Journal of Epidemiology, 1998 - Springer
... disease events at different rates than white people. ... males are less centrally obese
than whites ... the higher protection from coronary heart disease experi- enced ...

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Obese people may get better heart disease therapy

By Will Boggs, MD

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Overweight and obese patients with heart disease seem to be treated more aggressively than their leaner counterparts, which may, in part, explain why they are less likely to die during their hospital stay, new research shows.

Previous research has identified a so-called obesity paradox. Although patients who are overweight or obese are more prone to developing heart disease, once they have it, they often fare better than people of normal weight.

"Part of the message here is that we should not make treatments differ by body mass index (BMI)," Dr. Christopher P. Cannon told Reuters Health.

Body mass index is a measure of person's body weight for height. BMI values of 20 to 25 are considered normal, while higher values indicate overweight or obese status and lower values indicate underweight status.

As reported in the American Journal of Cardiology, Cannon from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and colleagues stratified more than 130,000 patients hospitalized for heart disease by BMI and assessed treatments received and outcomes.

Obese and overweight patients were younger, more likely to be male, have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes than were patients with lower BMI.

Nonetheless, overweight and obese patients were less likely to die while hospitalized and had a shorter hospital stay than did patients with a normal BMI.

The difference in death rates may lie with the treatments each group received. Overweight and obese patients were more likely and underweight patients less likely to undergo aggressive, potentially life-saving treatments like angioplasty or bypass surgery than healthy weight patients, the authors report.

"Sometimes BMI might influence what we do -- but we would like to take it out of our treatment algorithms and try to improve care for all patients," Cannon said.

"Regardless of the reasons for inconsistencies in treatment rates, physicians need to be aware that patients with increased body mass remain at high risk for development of (heart disease)," he and his colleagues conclude.

"Although they were more likely to survive their acute events, overweight patients were more likely to develop them at a younger age, thus increasing their risk for poor outcomes over the long term."

SOURCE: American Journal of Cardiology, November 1, 2007.

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