Obesity Aids in Heart Attack Survival !!

this one is funny :D .. obesity first causes heart attack and then aids in heart attack survival so that it can have all the fun all over again !!

" Among heart researchers there is no disagreement: Obesity and being overweight increase the risk for heart attacks. Period. But a new study is adding an unexpected element to the obesity story: Compared with normal weight people, overweight and obese people are more likely to survive heart attacks.

The study, from researchers at Duke University, tracked heart attack outcome in 16,000 patients from 37 countries and determined that about 4% of normal-weight people die within a year of heart attack, "but the one-year death rate drops to just over 2% for obese patients," says lead researcher Eric Eisenstein, DBA, of the Duke Clinical Research Institute in Durham, N.C.

Overweight and obese people also had better 30-day and 90-day heart attack survival rates than normal-weight people, says Eisenstein. Even one year after the heart attack, obese and overweight people had a higher heart attack survival rate than normal-weight people."

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