The larger the size of your abdomen, the greater the risk of diseases of the cardiovascular system, you are exposed, experts say, according to the Internet edition for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. Net According to the head of the study of the connection of the waist circumference and the frequency of the cardiovascular system, Dr. Carlos Iribarren from Northern California, the local obesity of the abdomen is much more terrible than the general obesity.

The Rosso-Weight Index (BMI) is not an entirely correct way to determine the risk of cardiovascular disease in terms of obesity, and athletes can have ideal health and a high weight-index because of the abundance of muscle tissue that has a high specific gravity.

In the study, Dr. Iribarren and colleagues conducted a study to determine whether the correction of the height-weight index using indicators such as the sagittal abdominal diameter (distance from the back to the abdomen center, measured as the midpoint of the distance between the top of the pelvis and the lower ribs) is more accurate.

Measurement of the waist circumference is often used as a criterion of local obesity, but it is possible to measure the waist in many ways and this method is not very accurate. The SBP is measured by a special instrument, somewhat similar to the compasses, and these measurements are devoid of subjectivity and inaccuracy.

At the same time, the researchers analyzed a group of people consisting of 101,765 men and women who were measured between 1065 tons in 1970 and then monitored for their health for 12 years.

Men with the highest rates of SBP were 42% more likely to have cardiovascular disease, women - 44%. When compared with a weight-to-weight index, the risk of cardiac pathology grew even in people with normal body weight, but high rates of SBP. In this case, there was a direct-proportional relationship between the index of SBP and the risk of cardiac pathology.

The greatest risk was in young patients with high SBP, which, according to researchers, is not surprising: the earlier the "central" abdominal type of obesity develops, the greater the problems.

Therefore, all patients who are overweight doctors recommend to adhere to a low-calorie diet and exercises that will reduce the placement of fatty tissue in the abdominal region. "Do not let this happen to you, especially in youth," says Dr. Iribarren, medicinform. Net.

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