AUGUST 16. NORTH CAROLINA – A new research published in the journal “Obesity” in the month of August has revealed that too much of fat around the heart can be more dangerous as compared to the excess body fat. This situation can lead to heat attack.
Research has revealed that that an elevating BMI (Body Mass Index) or a thick waistline deserves lesser attention than the fat deposits around your heart.
Researchers from the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center along with their colleagues have conducted a study among 159 people. They measured the pericardial fat (fat deposits around your heart) in people aged 55 to 74 and found that people, who have a remarkably higher level of pericardial fat are 4.65 times more prone to calcified coronary plaque in their arteries.
Calcified coronary plaque is not very risky, but if it is coupled with deposits of less stable fat, it can cause heart attack or stroke.
Dr. Jingzhong Ding, study lead author and an assistant professor of gerontology, said in a news release at Wake Forest that their findings suggest the local fat deposit is related with calcified coronary plagues rather total body fats.
According to him, inflammatory mediators that were released from pericardial fats might promote inflammation around local coronary artery and eventually give away to disease like coronary atherosclerosis.
Again, he added that since coronary heart diseases find many victims, it is important for finding new treatment and preventive strategy.
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