It's High Blood Pressure That Triggers Heart Disease in Obese - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today
By Peggy Peck, Senior Editor, MedPage Today
Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. September 14, 2005
Also covered by: Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post (Registration Req.)
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PARIS, Sept 14-It's not the fat per se that leads to cardiovascular disease mortality among the obese, according to a team of researchers here. The real culprit is the high blood pressure that is part and parcel with obesity.
"The important message in our study is that we observed that cardiovascular risk is not clearly increased unless hypertension is present in these overweight and obese subjects," said Athanases Benetos, M.D., Ph.D., of the Medical School of Nancy. "In our population, if the subject didn't have hypertension we didn't find that the subject had an increased risk of cardiovascular disease."
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