Obesity Linked to Unhealthy Heartbeat in Study
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Obesity raises the risk of atrial fibrillation, an abnormal heartbeat that can lead to stroke and early death if not controlled, researchers said on Tuesday.
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Apparently healthy obese people are suffering silent heart damage that sets the stage for serious cardiac problems, a new Australian study finds.
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Obese women with breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than those of a normal weight, researchers said today. US researchers looked at information
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Obese heart attack and angina patients are more likely to survive after treatment, research suggests.
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Obesity nearly doubles the risk that an otherwise healthy middle-aged man will eventually have a stroke, a long-running Swedish study finds.
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NEW YORK  - Even in the absence of apparent heart disease, obesity appears to prevent the heart from functioning normally, according to a new report.
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While being fat increases your chances of a heart attack, some studies suggest a puzzling paradox: Obese people seem to have a better chance of surviving one.
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Regular exercise is not enough to offset the health problems associated with obesity - but that shouldn&#39;t stop people who are overweight from working out, according to a study to be published in Thursday&#39;s New England Journal of
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Exercise is not enough to offset the increased death risk associated with being obese, research suggests. A study of more than 116,000 women nurses found physical activity did not totally compensate for the higher death risk associated with being obese.
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Women who put on extra pounds raise their risk of getting frequent heartburn or making symptoms worse &amp;#151; even if they aren&#039;t overweight, a new study found.
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Obesity can double the risk of several cancers, according to a study published on Friday that for the first time also links being overweight with a number of less common forms of the disease.
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Being overweight as a child significantly increases the risk for heart disease in adulthood as early as age 25, according to a large new study that provides the most powerful evidence yet that the obesity epidemic is spawning a generation prone to serious health problems later in life.
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Just being obese - even if you  don't have diabetes, heart disease or ailments - is still a  heavy load on your heart, researchers said on Tuesday.
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Having too little sleep increases the risk of becoming obese, a study has found.
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Obesity can double the risk of several  cancers, according to a study published on Friday that for the  first time also links being overweight with a number of less  common forms of the disease.
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TUESDAY, Nov. 23 (HealthDayNews) -- Add another cardiovascular problem to the list of life-threatening conditions associated with obesity: atrial fibrillation.
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Louis Aronne, president of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity, says whether obesity surpasses tobacco as the leading cause of preventable deaths &quot;this year or next year