Midlife Obesity Predicts Future Stroke Risk in Men
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NEW YORK  - A high body mass index (BMI) in middle-aged men is associated with an increased likelihood of having a stroke over the next two or three decades -- even after taking into account other risk factors such as high blood pressure
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Obese individuals are at  increased risk for suffering a heart attack or other "acute  coronary syndrome" (ACS), but because they are treated more  aggressively than their lean counterparts, their outcomes are  actually better, new research suggests.
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Nov. 24, 2004 - A new study says obesity may increase the risk of developing the heart rhythm disorder artrial fibrillation. But, on the other side of the coin, the AP is reporting that earlier government
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NEW YORK  - Obese men who undergo surgery  for prostate cancer are more likely than their non-obese peers  to experience a rise in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels,  a sign that their disease is returning, new research suggests.  Moreover, this seems to be true even in cases in which all of  the cancer was apparently removed at surgery.
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NEW YORK  - Severe sleep apnea appears to   be an independent risk factor for ischemic stroke in elderly   patients, according to a report in the September issue of   Stroke.
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Swedish researchers say men who eat fish more than twice a week may have an increased risk of stroke.
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A new study suggests a man's weight may affect the accuracy of a common test to detect prostate cancer, leading researchers to warn that doctors could be missing the dangerous cancer in obese men.
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Obese women have an increased risk of suffering dementia in later life, researchers have claimed. A study followed 290 women born between 1908 and 1922, looking at the relationship between body mass index
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FAT children are three to five times more likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke before they reach the age of 65, health campaigners warn.
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Description: Two studies report that sleep loss can contribute to obesity. Researchers found that when men slept 10 hours, they awoke with normal appetites.
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NEW YORK  - The presence in middle age of  risk factors for cardiovascular disease, like smoking or high  cholesterol, is strongly tied to the development of dementia  later in life, investigators in California report.
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People who have high blood pressure,  cholesterol, diabetes or who smoke in midlife have a much  higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease later on, U.S.  researchers reported on Monday.
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Obese people may be less likely to develop prostate cancer but more likely to die  of it, a study suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Women who are consistently  overweight or obese during adulthood may be at increased risk  for a decrease in the volume of certain areas of their brain --  according to a study from Sweden
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NEW YORK  - A high body mass index (BMI) in  middle-aged men is associated with an increased likelihood of  having a stroke over the next two or three decades -- even  after taking into account other risk factors such as high blood  pressure and diabetes --Swedish investigators have found.
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NEW YORK  - The "obesity paradox" lives on: In a look-back at a group of adults with suspected or known coronary artery disease, underweight adults had an increased risk of death, whereas overweight and obese adults had a lower risk of death, compared with normal-weight adults.
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MONDAY, Nov. 22 (HealthDayNews) -- Obesity is harmful to the brain for women, but it doesn't appear to raise the risk of dying for men who have suffered heart attacks, according to two new studies.