There are not only aesthetic factors in the motivation to lose weight, but also on health grounds. The risk of suffering a heart attack and stroke increases by about 25% for every 5 units in more than body mass index (BMI, weight divided by height multiplied by itself). E 'notes as a search made by Emanuele Di Angelantonio teacher' s University of Cambridge published in the journal Lancet.
The study involved 220 thousand followed for an average of 10 years, during which, there were 14 000 cases of heart attack and stroke, explains Di Angelantonio, head of the consortium "Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration", 200 scientists 17 countries. Some studies had shown that central obesity (measured by the ratio between waist and hip circumference) is associated with a risk of heart attack 3 times higher than other forms of obesity (such as the pear-shaped body with localized fat on the legs and buttocks). The new study refutes this hypothesis.
does not matter where you locate the fat, the risk of heart attack and stroke is 25% higher for each 5 units of BMI more. It is important to look at other parameters, cholesterol levels, blood pressure and diabetes, to estimate the individual risk of heart attack and stroke, and of course be noted that excess weight is dangerous three hundred and sixty degrees.
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