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Carrying just four pounds too many can raise your risk of heart disease by a fifth, according to new research.
A large scale study found being overweight really does cause Britain?s biggest killer - as well as diabetes.
Alarmingly, an increase of only one unit of BMI (body mass index), equivalent to 4 to 12lbs depending on height, made the participants 20 per cent more likely to develop heart failure.
Meanwhile, obesity also led to higher levels of insulin, higher blood pressure, higher cholesterol and inflammation and more cases of diabetes.
Professor Erik Ingelsson, of Uppsala University, Sweden, said: ?This knowledge is important, as it strengthens the evidence forceful societal measures need to be taken to counteract the epidemic of obesity and its consequences.?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...verweight-increase-risk-heart-disease-20.html
A large scale study found being overweight really does cause Britain?s biggest killer - as well as diabetes.
Alarmingly, an increase of only one unit of BMI (body mass index), equivalent to 4 to 12lbs depending on height, made the participants 20 per cent more likely to develop heart failure.
Meanwhile, obesity also led to higher levels of insulin, higher blood pressure, higher cholesterol and inflammation and more cases of diabetes.
Professor Erik Ingelsson, of Uppsala University, Sweden, said: ?This knowledge is important, as it strengthens the evidence forceful societal measures need to be taken to counteract the epidemic of obesity and its consequences.?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...verweight-increase-risk-heart-disease-20.html