As a recent study by Swedish scientists showed, there are no fat people in the world who remain completely healthy for a long time..

Researchers who conducted the study followed nearly 2,000 men in Sweden over the age of 50 for 30 years, collecting information about everyone who died or who had problems with the cardiovascular system, that is, experienced a stroke or heart attack..

Scientists were interested not only in the problem of obesity, but also in metabolic syndrome - the presence of three or more cardiovascular risk factors - high blood sugar, pressure and levels of fats (triglycerols) in the blood.. In addition, they paid attention to people with low levels of HDL (cholesterol) and a wide waist (more than 1 meter in men and 89 cm in women).

Previous studies have not found an increased risk of cardiovascular disease in overweight people who did not have metabolic syndrome, which was the reason for the emergence of the concept of " However, the report of the new study notes that the participants were not observed for a sufficient amount of time for such conclusions.. In obese people, health problems begin to appear after about 15 years..

Analyzing the ratio of a person's mass and his height, t. body mass index, whose value in the range from 25 to 30 indicates overweight, and excess of 30 indicates obesity, the scientists concluded that after 30 years the risk of diseases of the cardiovascular system in men with increased weight and no metabolic syndrome increased by 52%,.

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