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(Childhood Obesity News) Daily News: Early Obesity Linked to Heart Disease - Nurse.com

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If you are an RN living in the USA, depending on your mailing address, you are entitled to recieve Nursing Spectrum or Nurseweek magazine FREE of charge. Excess weight during childhood increases the risk for developing coronary artery disease as an adult, according to two studies in the New England Journal of Medicine . The rate of heart disease could be 5%-16% higher by 2035, with more than 100,000 excess cases of heart disease due to higher obesity rates, according to a U. Similarly, Danish researchers followed a cohort of nearly 277,000 children born from 1930 to 1976 and found a higher body-mass index during childhood was associated with an increased risk of heart disease in adulthood, especially in boys. Read Childhood Obesity

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