Obesity may reduce risk of heart failure death

mkpdavies · 21-01-2007, 06:59 PM

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Obese patients hospitalized with heart failure tend to fare better than their lean counterparts, new research suggests.

The report, which appears in the American Heart Journal, indicates that this "obesity paradox," which was previously described in patients with chronic heart failure, may also apply to patients with rapidly worsening or "decompensated" heart failure.

"This study suggests that overweight and obese patients may have a greater metabolic reserve to call upon during an acute heart failure episode," lead investigator Dr. Gregg Fonarow told Reuters Health, "which may lessen in-hospital (death) risk"

Damn, better get back on the intensive pie diet then.

NickIrons · 22-01-2007, 12:03 AM

Indeed, I never understood that theory,
More cholesterol makes your heart work
harder as the veins/arteries are clogged,
Doesn't working out have the same effect???

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22-01-2007, 12:03 AM	#2 (permalink)
NickIrons Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Bienne, Switzerland Posts: 494	Indeed, I never understood that theory, More cholesterol makes your heart work harder as the veins/arteries are clogged, Doesn't working out have the same effect???