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Obese children face heart disease as adults - Asbury Park Press- Topic: Childhood Obesity News
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By the time today’s teens are middle age, the rate of heart disease could be 16 percent higher because of the extra pounds they are carrying around today, a U. The two reports in the New England Journal of Medicine may well be underestimating the future health effects of childhood obesity, said Dr. The consequences of that are unprecedented and unknown,” said Ludwig, who was not involved in the research. The researchers found that the more overweight a child was between ages 7 and 13, the greater the risk of heart disease was in adulthood. But for a boy of the same age and height who weighed about 25 pounds more, the risk went up by one-third, to 16 percent. Some of those complications are risk factors for heart disease, which could explain the link between childhood weight and a higher risk of heart disease, the Danish researchers suggest. Read Childhood Obesity
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