by randy dotinga
. Health reporter
Insane Home Fat Loss - 'Fat But Fit' a Myth?
Monday, (Health News) - No amount of extra weight is good for your heart, no matter how fit you are by other measures, new British research shows.
"Our findings suggest that if a patient is overweight or obese, all efforts must be made to help them return to a healthy weight, regardless of other factors," said co-author Camille Lassale study, Imperial School of London Public Health College.
"Even if blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol looks within the normal range, excess weight is still a risk factor," Lassale said in a university news version. In fact, increasing the risk of developing heart disease was more than 25%, the study found.
The study used statistics on people's health in 10 European countries. Researchers focused on weight and signs of heart disease when blood vessels are clogged.The authors analyzed more than 7,600 people who had cardiovascular events such as the death of the heart attack, and compared them to 10,000 people who had no cardiac problems.
After adjusting its figures so that they were not played by other lifestyle factors, the researchers found that people with three or more cardiac risk factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol or large waist sizes (more than 37 inches Men and 31 inches for women) were more than twice as much prone to having heart disease, regardless of their weight to be normal or up normal.
But those who were considered overweight but healthy were still 26% more likely to develop heart disease than their normal peers. Those considered healthy, but obese, had a risk of 28% higher, the study found.
The discoveries, which did not prove that the extra weight causes the cardiac risks to rise, were published on August 14 in the European Journal of Heart."I think there is no longer this concept of healthy obeso," said the co-author of study Ioanna Tzoulaki, senior professor at the epidemiology of the university.
"If anything, our study shows that overweight people that can be classified as" healthy "have not yet developed an unhealthy metabolic profile. This comes later on the timeline, so they have an event, As a heart attack, "she said.
