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Belly fat found to raise the risk of diabetes heart disease and cancer development
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Belly fat found to raise the risk of diabetes heart disease and cancer development
There is a well established relationship between abdominal fat stores and the development of cardiovascular disease and many types of cancer. A team of Swedish researchers publishing the results of their work in the journal PLOS Medicine have found that adding just a few extra pounds can raise the risk of heart failure by seventeen percent. Recent research studies have shown that belly fat is not metabolically inert, but actively promotes the secretion of many powerful hormones such as cortisol that not only make it more difficult to lose body weight, but also promote systemic inflammation that raise the risk for heart failure, cardiovascular diseases and DNA aberrations that help cancer cells to grow and metastasize. Researchers conclude that overweight and obesity is a direct cause of cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Researchers studied more than 200,000 individuals for a gene variant that controls appetite and can raise a persons BMI, commonly associated with several cardiovascular diseases and metabolism.
The study team led by Dr. Tove Fall, lead study researcher at the Department of Medical Sciences and the Science for Life Laboratory at Uppsala University found that an increase of only one unit of BMI raises the risk of developing heart failure and cardiac dysfunction by an average of twenty percent. Further, the researchers determined that obesity leads to higher blood pressure, higher insulin levels, worse cholesterol values, increased inflammation markers, and raised the risk of diabetes.
In a separate body of research, scientists from the Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston, publishing in the prestigious Journal of the American College of Cardiology found that carrying too much fat around the abdomen puts people at greater risk for heart disease and cancer compared with people who have a similar BMI but who carry their fat in other parts of the body.
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The study team led by Dr. Tove Fall, lead study researcher at the Department of Medical Sciences and the Science for Life Laboratory at Uppsala University found that an increase of only one unit of BMI raises the risk of developing heart failure and cardiac dysfunction by an average of twenty percent. Further, the researchers determined that obesity leads to higher blood pressure, higher insulin levels, worse cholesterol values, increased inflammation markers, and raised the risk of diabetes.
In a separate body of research, scientists from the Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston, publishing in the prestigious Journal of the American College of Cardiology found that carrying too much fat around the abdomen puts people at greater risk for heart disease and cancer compared with people who have a similar BMI but who carry their fat in other parts of the body.
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