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MEDICAL: CONDITIONS: OBESITY :
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Normal Weight Obesity:
An Emerging Risk Factor for Heart and Metabolic Problems
Normal Weight Obesity:
An Emerging Risk Factor for Heart and Metabolic Problems
Thursday, March 27, 2008
PRESENTATION TIME
Tuesday, April 1, 2008, 8 a.m. CDT
American College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Session
Mayo Clinic
<http://www.mayoclinic.org/news2008-rst/4738.html>
CHICAGO More than half of American adults considered to have normal body
weight in America have high body fat percentages greater than 20 percent
for men and 30 percent for women as well as heart and metabolic
disturbances, new Mayo Clinic research shows. The finding conflicts with
the widely held belief that maintaining a normal weight automatically
guards against disorders such as high levels of circulating blood fats and
a tendency to develop metabolic syndrome, which often leads to type 2
diabetes.
The researchers defined "normal weight" by body mass index (BMI). They
found that people with normal BMI who had the highest percentage of body
fat were also those who had metabolic disturbances linked to heart
disease. The researchers use the phrase "normal weight obesity" to
describe this new type of patient at risk for metabolism problems and risk
factors for heart disease, but who rates as "normal" on standard weight
charts. They defined normal weight obesity as a condition of having a
normal BMI with high body fat percentage.
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"Using the term 'normal weight obesity' is really a way of being more
precise about the changing conceptualization of obesity, because the real
definition of obesity is excess body fat," says Francisco Lopez-Jimenez,
M.D., a cardiologist on the Mayo research team. "Our study demonstrates
that even people with normal weight may have excessive body fat, and that
these people are at risk for metabolic abnormalities that lead to diabetes
and, eventually, to heart disease."
Significance of the Mayo Clinic Study
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About the Study
The researchers studied 2,127 adults, equally divided between men and
women, who had normal weight (BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 units). The
participants' body composition was assessed, and their risk factors for
metabolic and heart disease were collected by the U.S. government in its
Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
<http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/elec_prods/subject/nhanes3.htm>
The complete article may be read at the URL above.
Romero-Corral A, Somers VK, Sierra-Johnson J, Korenfeld Y, Boarin S,
Korinek J, Jensen MD, Parati G, Lopez-Jimenez F.
Normal weight obesity:
a risk factor for cardiometabolic dysregulation and cardiovascular
mortality.
Eur Heart J 2009 Nov 20.
[Epub ahead of print]
Vazquez Roque MI, Camilleri M, Stephens DA, Jensen MD, Burton DD, Baxter
KL, Zinsmeister AR.
Gastric sensorimotor functions and hormone profile in normal weight,
overweight, and obese people.
Gastroenterology 2006 Dec;
131(6):1717-24. Epub 2006 Oct 15.
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