Obesity Cuts Risk of Dying After Heart Attack
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WEDNESDAY, June 20 (HealthDay News) -- In what doctors admit is a paradox, new European research shows that obese patients have half the risk of dying after a heart attack compared with normal-weight patients.
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Obesity is on its way to being deadlier than smoking as a cause of cancer, a leading researcher said Friday. Being obese is currently associated with about 14 percent of cancer deaths in men and 20 percent in women, compared with about 30 percent each for smoking, Dr. Walter C. Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health, told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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NEW YORK  - Treatment with a statin drug after a person is hospitalized with a heart attack can reduce long-term mortality and prevent further heart events, Japanese researchers report.
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Older people can cut heart disease and diabetes risks through regular exercise and weight loss, according to a new study. Research by Johns Hopkins University found that people between the ages of 55 and 75
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NEW YORK  - Among men with symptoms of heart disease, those who are obese tend to live longer than their normal-weight counterparts, a new study suggests.
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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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NEW YORK  - It seems that the association between body mass index (BMI) and high blood pressure or hypertension has decreased since 1989, researchers say. The finding suggests that obesity may not have as much of an impact on heart-related disease as previously thought.
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Obese woman suffering from early-stage breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease compared to women of normal weight, according to researchers at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia.
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NEW YORK  - People who are just moderately overweight have an increased risk developing heart disease, even if they are otherwise healthy, according to pooled data from published studies.
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Very obese people are as unhealthy, and probably as likely to die, as patients with heart failure, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.
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Obese people are significantly less likely to die prematurely if they undergo stomach surgery to lose weight, according to two large new studies that offer the first convincing evidence that the health gains of losing weight translate into living longer.
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Very obese people are as unhealthy,  and probably as likely to die, as patients with heart failure,  U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 12 (HealthDay News) -- A new study involving more than  300,000 people finds that being overweight independently increases a person&#39;s risk of coronary disease.
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Although some studies have found that smoking paradoxically improves the outcome after heart attack, this was not the case in a multinational study involving more
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NEW YORK  - Although obesity is usually  linked to detrimental health consequences, new research  indicates that overweight people with heart failure have a  lower mortality risk than those of normal weight.
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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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Obesity is related to poor blood flow, high blood pressure &quot;and cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases,&quot; Dr. Deborah Gustafson, from Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Goteborg, said in a statement.