Overweight teens have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease later in life, suggests a new study, even if they lose as adults weight.
As teens seven times more likely develop men who were overweight heart disease in their mid-30s, when compared to men, were thinner than young people.
Obesity is a growing problem in the United States. The Centers for disease control and prevention reports that between 2007 and 2008, 17% of children aged 2 to 19 years old were obese.
Write the New England Journal of medicine, the study included more than 37,000 Israeli soldiers. Soldiers were drawn up at the age of 17 and remained in the military as a career; 90% of men worked at the desk of jobs. The participants were followed for 17 years; the average soldiers won 33 pounds.
To body index (BMI) measured the scientists, controlled for cholesterol levels, closely you out, smoking, blood pressure and weight monitor changes to family history of cardiovascular disease practice.
If the majority of participants were in their mid-30s, 0.9% of men with heart disease were diagnosed at the end of the study. And a 1.8% men, who were obese as a teenager had higher risk of cardiovascular disease. These men had in addition a 3% higher risk of diabetes. The researchers say that the impact on women is unclear.
An angiogram researchers used determine risk heart; a coronary artery narrowed by 50% with heart disease classified.
According to the American Heart Association one are either overweight or obese; today of three children in the United States Triple-rate in 1963. The causes of obesity are obvious: poor diet, including over consumption of junk food and insufficient intake of fruit and vegetables; and lack of exercise.
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