Guidelines on diabetes and cardiovascular diseases published today

Guidelines on diabetes and cardiovascular diseases published today

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BELLY fat poses more of a danger for women than men, experts have warned. Carrying a few extra pounds around your tummy significantly increases your risk of heart disease, a new study suggests. And if women have just one extra kilogram of fat on their tummies, it can increase their risk of type 2 diabetes more than seven times. The study, published in Nature Medicine, investigated the link between belly fat and increased risk of diabetes and heart attack in over 325,000 people. The researchers from Uppsala University in diabetes cardiovascular disease Sweden used genetic data to estimate the amount of fat stored around the organs in the belly and around the intestines, known as visceral fat, in the participants. They found that that deep belly fat was a major contributing risk factor for developing diabetes and cardiovascular disease - particularly in women. One of the co-authors of the study, Dr Asa Johansson, associate professor of molecular epidemiology at Uppsala University said: "We were surprised that visceral fat was more strongly linked to risk of disease in women compared to men.

(CNN) Death rates States due to cardiometabolic -- heart disease, diabetes high blood pressure -- either plateaued or climbed recent years, either unchanged or increased thereafter," Dr. Sadiya Khan, was senior author research. "Even more are persistent Belly fat in Heart disease deaths disparities higher death rates among Americans compared white men had highest rates.

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