What is it about?
Being overweight or obese creates damaging changes to the structure of the heart, according to new research published in the journal PLoS ONE today. The new research uses UK Biobank data to reveal for the first time the direct damage that carrying extra weight has on the heart’s weight and size, and implicates a range of other modifiable risk factors including high blood pressure.
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Why is it important?
With this research, we’ve helped to show how an unhealthy lifestyle increases your risk of heart disease. BMI and blood pressure in particular led to heavier and bigger hearts, which increases the risk of heart problems, including heart attacks
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Coronary heart disease is the UK’s single biggest killer, but there are steps you can take to lower your risk. As research continues to demonstrate the benefits of a healthy lifestyle on your heart, there has never been a better time to make those changes than today.
Professor Steffen E Petersen
Queen Mary University of London
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This page is a summary of: The impact of cardiovascular risk factors on cardiac structure and function: Insights from the UK Biobank imaging enhancement study, PLoS ONE, October 2017, PLOS,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185114.
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