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Obese Survive Heart Attack Better Than Lean
Posted by jodiac on Jun.25, 2009, under Nutrition Facts Comments Off
Doctors from the University of California, Los Angele’s (UCLA) David Geffen School of Medicine have, for the first time, successfully proved that obese patients fare better and have more chances of survival when admitted for acute heart failure than leaner counterparts.
In the first-ever extensive study to assess the relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and survival in patients hospitalized with acute heart failure, doctors have found the obesity paradox- BMI is inversely associated with long-term mortality in chronic heart failure – to be real.
Doctors have found that by weight category, in-hospital mortality rate was 6.3 percent for underweight, 4.6 percent for healthy weight, 3.4 percent for over weight and 2.4 percent for obese patients. They have also found that for every five-unit increase in body mass, the chances of risk-adjusted mortality fell 10 percent, irrespective of patient age, sex, blood urea nitrogen, blood pressure and additional prognostic factors.
