Abdominal Fat Increases Heart Attack Risk Among Women

Men and women who have a higher waist-to-hip ratio were found to be strongly associated to be at risk of heart attack than overall obesity, especially women are at a higher risk.

The research was published in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.

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In a study of nearly 500,000 adults (aged 40-69) from the United Kingdom, researchers found that while general obesity and obesity specifically around the abdomen each have profound harmful effects on heart attack risk in both sexes, women were more negatively impacted by higher waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio than men.

This study suggests that the differences in the quantity and distribution of fat tissue not only results in differences in body shape between women and men, but may also have differential implications for the risk of heart attack in later life, researchers noted.

"Our findings support the notion that having proportionally more fat around the abdomen (a characteristic of the apple shape) appears to be more hazardous than more visceral fat which is generally stored around the hips (i.e., the pear shape)," said lead author Sanne Peters, Ph.D., Research Fellow in Epidemiology at the George Institute for Global Health at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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Source-Eurekalert