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Article: Bad breadth. (abdominal obesity and risk of stroke and heart failure)
- Article from:
- Medical Update
- Article date:
- March 1, 1989
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BAD BREADTH
If what studies from Boston University (BU) are saying is true, a little vanity can be a good thing. BU researchers say that abdominal obesity can lead to an increased risk of stroke in men and heart failure in both sexes. When blood flow is cut off from certain parts of the brain, stroke and other neurological problems result.
Congestive heart failure occurs when a weakened cardiac muscle somehow doesn't deliver enough oxygen to the body. Bu researchers have studied a group of 4500 adults from the Framingham Heart Study for two decades. The study has investigated the developments of heart and blood vessel disease in residents of ...