Even a little overweight leads to greater heart risk, a study said. In a major study of American doctors said that few extra pounds and just a little inactivity increased the risk of heart failure The new findings tonight show that when it comes to raising your risk of heart failure, every extra pound counts.
For years studies have shown that most people can still be healthy, even when just slightly overweight. That was good news for many Americans – nearly 190 million are considered either “moderately overweight” or “obese.”
Dr. Satish Kenchaiah, lead author of a report on the finding in the Dec. 23 issue of Circulation said “What this study shows is that even overweight men who are not obese have an increase in heart failure risk.” Said.
The study found that doctors who rarely or never exercised were older, smoked cigarettes more often, and were more likely to have high blood pressure or diabetes.
Kenchaiah, who did the research as a epidemiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and is now at the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute said “even a little amount of physical activity appears to decrease the risk of heart failure.”
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