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Scientists have refuted the link between types of obesity and the risk of heart attackCopper news
Scientists have refuted the link between the risk of heart disease and the nature of adipose tissue deposition in the body, according to WebMD (Apple-Shaped Obesity, Other Forms Equally Risky, Study Finds).
A report on the study by an international team of specialists led by John Danesh from the University of Cambridge (Cambridge University) is published in the journal The Lancet (Separate and combined associations of body-mass index and abdominal adiposity with cardiovascular disease: collaborative analysis of 58 prospective studies).
Until now, scientists believed that the risk of developing diseases of the cardiovascular system, in particular myocardial infarction, depends on the type of obesity. A higher risk was associated with the deposition of adipose tissue mainly around the waist and above (the so-called "male" or upper type of obesity). Approximately three times less infarcts occurred in patients with the "female" type of obesity, when fat is deposited on the hips and buttocks.
For 10 years, Denesh and his colleagues observed more than 220 thousand obese patients whose body mass index exceeded 30. All participants did not suffer from heart and vascular diseases before the start of the study. During the follow-up, about 14 thousand heart attacks and strokes were recorded in patients.
According to the authors of the study, these conditions were almost evenly distributed among groups of patients with different types of obesity.
Denesh noted that the risk of heart attack and stroke depended more on the blood pressure and cholesterol levels in the blood of the study participants than on the nature of body fat.
According to the World Health Organization, diseases of the cardiovascular system are the most common cause of death in the world. More than 17 million people die from these diseases every year. The prevalence of obesity in the world is steadily increasing. Currently, about one and a half billion inhabitants of the planet are overweight. The number of such people has more than doubled since 1980.
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