How Gaining Even a Little Weight Is Bad For Your Heart

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How Gaining Even a Little Weight Is Bad For Your
Heart
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• Research has recently shown that gaining even a
  small amount of weight over a period of time can
  be detrimental to the heart since it effectively
  alters the structure and function of the heart
  muscle. Over time, this can lead to premature
  heart failure.

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• Increasing in weight as we age tends to be a
  natural occurrence, a bi-product of our older
  selves becoming less active and our metabolism
  slowing down as a result.

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• Yet, even adding a modest increase to your
  waist-line of 5 of your total weight can cause a
  thickening of the left ventricle. This is based
  on a seven-year study of middle-aged adults.

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• Not-unexpectedly, those in the same demographic
  that lost weight exhibited signs that their
  hearts were decreasing in muscular thickness, a
  finding that was independent of control measures
  such as high blood pressure, diabetes, alcohol
  use and smoking.

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• What is interesting is the results were not
  influenced by an individuals weight at the
  beginning of the study and their initial weight
  didnt make a significant impact the changes.

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• This suggests that those who fall within a
  normal BMI range could be susceptible to a
  thickening of the left ventricle if they gained
  weight with age.

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• Any weight gain may lead to detrimental changes
  in the heart above and beyond the effects of
  baseline weight, so that prevention should focus
  on weight loss or if meaningful weight loss
  cannot be achieved the focus should be on
  weight stability, says Dr Ian Neeland, senior
  author and a cardiologist and assistant professor
  of medicine at University of Texas Southwestern
  Medical Centre in Dallas.
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