Posted on 03/16/2010 4:20:32 PM PDT by decimon
Study Reaffirms “Obesity Paradox”: Obese patients at lower risk of sudden cardiac death compared to non-obese patients
Obesity has long been identified as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and heart failure. But, a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center found that being skinny confers no advantage when it comes to the risk of dying suddenly from cardiac causes.
Scientists found that non-obese heart failure patients – including overweight, normal and underweight patients – had a 76 percent increase in risk of sudden cardiac death compared to obese heart failure patients. Normal and underweight patients showed a startling 99 percent increase in risk for sudden cardiac death compared to obese patients.
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Fat chance ping.
But buy bigger pants.
Spoil Sport...
The study did not address diabetes or car accidents, or booze or slips on the ice from globull cooling.
It just said contrary to assumptions made prior, fat people die slightly less often than skinny people from sudden coronaries.
There’s statistical evidence relating gut fat to diabetes.
Yeah, but so do the chances of getting laid.
Ask Rochester to do a study on that. I never really bought into that idea either. People with diabetes gain weight like crazy. So it's easy to say that it's connected. I am thinking there is something else at work to cause type two issues.
Internal medicine, in case you never noticed, is still in the dark ages compared to other areas. Don't ever trust a doctor unless you see more than one on internal issues. They all suck eggs.
Good advice!
The study did not address other blockages, just the deadly one.
I stayed in a Holiday Inn express once.
I disagree. They're excellent at scaring the crap out of you with tests that end with "undetermined origin".
That is funny as hell! LOL!
Maybe their "younger" heart gives them the advantage.
Too funny ;)
“Don’t ever trust a doctor...They all suck eggs.”
ROTFLMAO :)
They actually nearly killed me. My vascular system has a bunch of extra stuff.
The last incident was two years ago when they had me all ready to install a couple stents in my heart. They had already poked me full of holes and bathed me in radiation.
Ten minutes after the procedure started they fond out that I needed no stents and that calcium had blocked the imaging devices.
My crotch still hurts from time to time after they shoved all that hardware up my femoral artery.
fond=found
Perhaps you have not been around FreeRepublic long enough to notice that we posters don’t use such vulgar language.
I finally saw a good one before it was deleted. The poster joined Dec., 2009.
Interesting but extremely misleading headlines. The study has to do with people who are already heart patients and have already experienced at least one heart attack. The skinny ones have a much higher risk of dying from a sudden heart attack than the fat ones.
Fat people have an obvious reason to have heart disease: they're fat.
Skinny people don't have an obvious reason to have heart disease.
From that, I conclude that most skinny people who have heart disease and have had a heart attack have probably gotten to that shape because of some different reason than most of the fat people.
So whatever that different cause (or causes) is, it or they are more likely to be lethal.
I had to use the backup button a few times, but it was not worth seeing....LOL
I always miss them. I feel...so left out. ;-)
Works for me for some reason.
Fixx came from a family where the men had poor health histories. His father suffered a heart attack at age 35, dying of a second at 42
I.e. he had healthy habits but bad genes.
As to cholesterol, fat is better than skinny. People with high readings will always have high readings until the medical community stops BS'ing and actually figures out that the body makes the stuff. Some more than others.
IMO a fat person would naturally have his/her digestive tract so busy processing food and eliminating the cholesterol dumped in the gut to aid digestion that most of it would be eliminated.
Skinny people eat like birds and when they do they eat rabbit food or skip meals like I do. The cholesterol in their guts would be more likely to be reabsorbed and end up in the blood and subsequently in the heart's vascular walls where it will eventually cause the big one.
Just my thought on the matter. I have high cholesterol which is why they thought I was at risk and I do have some buildup but not serious stuff. If I try to diet, my numbers go off the scale. If I eat regularly to keep my gut working daily, my numbers go down.
I try to eat oatmeal but have to put sugar on it. No help for the weight so I just quit worrying about it. I tell any doctor that I like my cholesterol where it is and thank him for caring so much.
It works for me. But the doctors hate it so I fire them. Looking for another one right now.
Skinny people are smokers.
Smoking causes lung cancer in some people, mouth or throat cancer in others and it contributes to high blood pressure in some because it causes the blood to thicken with red cells due to the increased CO and CO2.
Sudden onset heart attacks are usually caused by a blood clot that gets stuck in a cholesterol laden artery. Blood clots can be caused by as little as a bruise or a heart issue like atrial fibrillation and all sorts of things. These things often happen to active people not fatsos so smoking is not a likely cause IMO.
As a qualification, I have been a smoker for almost 50 years. I know what it does.
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