Obesity and the risk of heart disease
Obesity and the risk of heart disease
Obesity is one of the problems that many people suffer from in the current era and in many countries of the world.
Many studies have proven that obesity and excessive weight are associated with many factors that increase the risk of heart disease, especially coronary artery disease and strokes.
Among these factors that are linked to obesity and weight gain:
1) High blood fats, especially triglycerides, low-density cholesterol (bad cholesterol) and low levels of high-density cholesterol (good cholesterol)
2) High blood pressure
3) High blood sugar (type II)
4) *Metabolic syndrome (nutritional syndrome): *It is a group of pathological factors that combine with each other, which increases the risk of heart and artery disease, strokes and diabetes. These specific pathological factors are (obesity, high blood pressure, high sugar, high cholesterol and triglycerides)
Obesity and excess weight are also associated with enlargement of the heart muscle, especially the "left ventricle", which also increases the risk of heart failure.
We should not forget that obesity and overweight are associated with other health problems other than the heart, such as some cancerous tumors, gallstones, and early joint problems.
Are you at increased risk?
To know whether you are overweight or not?? And are there risks to your heart??
There are some scientific methods:
The most famous of which is knowing;
(Body Mass Index) or what is scientifically called (Body Mass Index)
It is possible to download a body mass calculator program on the phone and you will enter the height and weight and it will tell you whether you are overweight or not.
We wish everyone an ideal healthy weight.
