You've just had a heart attack, and you're in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. If you're overweight or moderately obese, you're actually more likely to survive that heart attack than if you were a normal weight or underweight person.
It's what doctors and researchers call the "obesity paradox." While being overweight probably helped land you in the hospital with a heart attack in the first place, that extra weight could work in your favor after the fact. In fact, dozens of studies from the past several years indicate that people who are overweight or moderately obese according to the body mass index are more likely to survive chronic conditions like cardiovascular disease, kidney disease and diabetes than normal weight or underweight people.
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Kalantar-Zadeh's editorial accompanies two new studies in the journal that shed more light on the obesity paradox. The first, a meta-analysis of 36 different coronary heart disease studies by Dr. Abhishek Sharma of the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, confirms what researchers have been saying for several years now: Coronary heart disease patients with a BMI between 25 and 30 (technically "overweight") have a lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease than normal weight patients with a BMI between 18 and 25.
In fact, obese and severely obese patients with cardiovascular disease had 27 percent and 22 percent lower chances, respectively, of dying from any cause compared with people with normal BMIs.
I shouldn't have laughed.
I can see this. Your body (mainly your heart) is already on an overdriven mode, that an MI here and there will only be a mild distraction.
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Being obese means you're more propense to suffer hear attacks, yeah. You might have more chances to survive one but also your body is so full of sickness you'll be more propense to suffer them.
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Being obese means you're more propense to suffer hear attacks, yeah. You might have more chances to survive one but also your body is so full of sickness you'll be more propense to suffer them.
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In the "fat as protection" camp is Dr. Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, a professor in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, as well as an obesity paradox expert.
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Kalantar-Zadeh wrote an editorial in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Fatties win? You should research more... The only thing I will give to fat people is wrinkles, they have almost none.
I'm simply saying what the research is: if two people have heart attacks and one is normal weight and the other is fat, the fat one will more likely survive
genetics and age plays a big part in heart disease you know my grandma is skinny and vegetarian, but still has heart problems.
true, but when you are above a certain age, even if you're fit, you're likely to have cardiovascular problems, and at that stage, the fatties win
But at any age, the fitter people still have fewer cardiovascular problems on average Obesity in old age is also linked to much higher rates of disability.
There's a difference between being fat and obese. Obese people never win.
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n fact, obese and severely obese patients with cardiovascular disease had 27 percent and 22 percent lower chances, respectively, of dying from any cause compared with people with normal BMIs.
I shouldn't have laughed.
Obesity in old age is also linked to much higher rates of disability.