A recent survey done by a group of researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx shows that more than 50% of overweight people and almost 33% of obese people in America do not have a higher risk of heart disease. The surprising results, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, defy conventional wisdom that fat necessarily leads to heart ailments.
A summary result of the research are show below :
51% of overweight adults, translated to 36 million people nationwide, have mostly normal levels of heart disease indicators.
32% of obese individuals, or nearly 20 million people, were likewise found to be “metabolically healthy.”
24% of Americans with the recommended weight did display risk factors like abnormal levels of blood pressure, cholesterol, blood fats and blood sugar.
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