Obesity is not always a Contributor of Heart Diseases

It is a very old conception that obesity is one of the major contributors to the heart diseases and also diabetes, this thing may be true for some people but for all obese individuals this thinking is not right, a new Dutch research has proven.

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According to the lead researcher Dr. Andre van Beek, from the University Medical Center in Groningen “Metabolically healthy obese persons do not have the elevated cardiovascular risk of obesity, but represent only a small subset of the total obese population” and further “It’s the metabolic risk profile that counts and not the weight itself”.

For the purpose of conducting this research, the researchers have collected data of 1,325 obese people and these were among those 8,356 Dutch people who participated in a large Dutch study.

Thus we can say that it is not those extra fats that awaken the risks of heart problems in humans but it is our metabolic profile which must be checked if the prevention from heart problems is desired.

Dr. Tae-Hwa Chun, an assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan said that “clearly we need to know why some overweight and obese individuals are protected from metabolic deterioration and increased cardiovascular risk”.