People with a beer belly are significantly more likely to die from cardiovascular disease than people who are overweight but don't have a big belly.. This is stated in a large statistical study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine..
The study involved 15,000 people, more than half of whom were women.. The Cox proportional hazards model was used. The aim of the study was, after adjusting for other risks, to elucidate the cardiovascular and other fatal risks for people with various forms of obesity, according to Pannochka, an online publication for girls and women aged 14 to 35.. net A study has shown that people with so-called central obesity (with fat deposits in the abdomen, that is, with a beer belly) risk much more and die due to cardiovascular diseases much more often than people with normal and even overweight people.
A man with a normal body mass index (22) but central obesity has a 1.87 times higher risk of death than a man with a similar BMI but no beer belly. Moreover, the risk of death due to cardiovascular events (such as strokes and heart attacks) in men with a large belly is 2 times higher than in men with a high BMI, that is, those who are overweight..
For women, a woman with central obesity is 1.48 times more at risk than a woman with a normal BMI and 1.3 times more than a woman with a high BMI.
Note that previous studies have linked an incorrect waist-to-hip ratio (i.e., if the waist is wider than the hips) with cardiovascular risk and the risk of type 2 diabetes, but the current study is the first to quantify the risks..
“Not all fat is equally dangerous,” endocrinologist Antonio Mas told El Pais.. “Visceral (surrounding organs) fat is metabolically more active, and its excess leads to an increase in insulin resistance and, as a result, to diabetes, as well as to a deterioration in blood lipid profile.. It is a clinical marker of the metabolic syndrome, which is characterized by multiple cardiovascular risk factors and a large increase in mortality.”.
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