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For the first time, the American Heart Association details a new cardiovascular syndrome that reflects links between obesity, diabetes, heart and kidney disease.
Obesity is a disease characterized by having excessive body fat, increasing a person’s risk for many serious health problems, such as heart disease, diabetes, and even some cancers.
This has been attributed to the fact that people often lose weight when they have severe and chronic illness (a syndrome called cachexia). [19] Similar findings have been made in other types of heart disease. Among people with heart disease, those with class I obesity do not have greater rates of further heart problems than people of normal weight.
[187] [188] Heart disease and diabetes risks associated with different diets appear to be similar. [189] Promotion of the Mediterranean diets among the obese may lower the risk of heart disease. [187] Decreased intake of sweet drinks is also related to weight-loss. [187]
Individuals who have obesity and also have diabetes or heart disease, or who are experiencing joint or back pain, or other obesity-associated medical conditions, would be considered clinically obese.
Both overweight and obesity are major risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, specifically heart disease and stroke, and diabetes. The International Diabetes Federation reports that as of 2011 [needs update], 366 million people have diabetes; this number is projected to increase to over half a billion (estimated 552 million) by 2030.
Central obesity is a key feature of the syndrome, as both a sign and a cause, in that the increasing adiposity often reflected in high waist circumference may both result from and contribute to insulin resistance. However, despite the importance of obesity, affected people who are of normal weight may also be insulin-resistant and have the ...
Coronary artery disease develops when the arteries that supply your heart become clogged with a fatty substance called plaque. The build-up of plaque is also called atherosclerosis.