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Abdominal Fat
Tied to Heart Attack, Chest Pain Risk
(New York, Reuters Health, 5/30/02)
According to Dr. Hanna-Maaria Lakka of the University of
Kuopio in Finland and colleagues who studied 1346 healthy
Finnish men for 10 years, subjects with the greatest fat
deposits around their waists (as measured by a waist-to-hip
ratio) were more likely to have heart attacks than those who
carried fat on other parts of their bodies. They also noted
that "abdominal obesity" was strongest for men who smoked and
were generally unfit.
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