Obesity Without Health Risks – Can It Be True?
Friday, June 25, 2010 10:00Comments Off on Obesity Without Health Risks – Can It Be True?
Obesity has always been touted as one of the biggest controllable risk factors for heart disease and diabetes. While that’s still true, researchers are discovering that a small portion of obese people manage to avoid the associated risks.
Conditions like high blood pressure and high cholesterol sometimes go hand in hand with obesity. Those conditions put a person in high cardiovascular risk.
But a recent Dutch study, presented at the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting, found that 6.8 percent of obese study participants had no health history of cardiovascular disease or diabetes, had none of the conditions that put them at risk, and were basically “metabolically healthy.”
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