Navigation Links
Extra Pounds May Offer Protection to Heart Failure Patients
Date:7/5/2012

THURSDAY, July 5 (HealthDay News) -- Heart failure patients who are carrying extra pounds have a lower risk of death and other heart failure-related health outcomes than thin or normal-weight patients, new research suggests.

Researchers call it the "obesity paradox." Obesity raises the risk of developing heart failure, but once people have it, excess weight is associated with lower risk of death, of needing a heart transplant and other problems, the researchers said.

In the study, researchers from University of California, Los Angeles analyzed information on about 2,700 heart failure patients who had their body mass index measured at the beginning of treatment and 469 patients who had their waist circumference measured.

Body mass index, or BMI, is a measure of height and weight. A BMI of 25 to 29.9 is considered overweight, while a BMI of 30 and up is obese.

Waist circumference measures fat accumulated around the belly, according to the researchers.

In the study, patients with a BMI of 25 or up were considered to have a high BMI. For men, 40 inches or more indicated a high waist circumference, while for women, 37 inches or more was considered high.

After two years, men with a high waist circumference and a high BMI were more likely to survive and were less likely to need a heart transplant. Similarly, women with a higher BMI also had better results than normal-weight women, while those with a large waist circumference "trended" toward better results, the researchers said.

In contrast, men with a normal BMI and smaller waist circumference had a 34 percent higher risk for adverse outcomes and normal-weight women had a 38 percent higher risk for adverse outcomes.

"The study provides us with more insight about how both genders of heart failure patients may be impacted by the obesity paradox," study senior author Dr. Tamara Horwich, an assistant professor of cardiology at the David Geffen S
'/>"/>

Copyright©2012 ScoutNews,LLC.
All rights reserved

0

GOOD

Page: 1 2

Related medicine news :

1. Natural Sciences Repository Publishes Chromatography and Acidic Compounds Resources
2. Test-Med Joins Forces with Mollen to Expand its Service Offerings to its Customers
3. Medtronic Infuse Bone Graft Questioned As Allegations Unfold – Bisnar
4. Chase Attorneys Offer Free Consultations
5. Researchers Offer Explanation for Actos Bladder Cancer Risk
6. Adaptivity Pro Offers Free Rafting Trip for Two
7. QuickMedical® Offers The WaveSense Blood Glucose Monitoring System
8. US Drug Watchdog Now Offers to Help All Woman Who Used Fosamax For Osteoporosis and Then Had an Unexplained a Femur Break Get to the Best Attorneys
9. Bridges to Recovery Now Offers Intensive Psychological and Mental Treatment
10. Coral Calcium Company Announces New Offer Amidst Supreme Court Healthcare Decisions
11. Spectrum Surgical Offers Face Shield Visor for Decontamination
Post Your Comments:
*Name:
*Comment:
*Email:
(Date:5/24/2013)... 24, 2013 According to the National Institutes ... toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) that affects the skin and mucous ... adults under the age of 30 (i). In the ... and fever. As SJS advances, it affects the mucous ... and anus. Inflammation of the eye causes conjunctivitis (pink ...
(Date:5/24/2013)... FRIDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) -- The number ... units after spending time in an emergency room ... new research. The study, conducted by researchers ... Health and Health Services in Washington, D.C., found ... room on average before being admitted to the ...
(Date:5/24/2013)... new investigational device - the Helio System (TF-FA) - ... Heart Valve was successfully deployed in all four patients ... in high-risk aortic insufficiency reported at EuroPCR 2013. , ... help stabilise the SAPIEN XT valve for patients with ... captured between the transcatheter heart valve and the dock. ...
(Date:5/24/2013)... May 24, 2013 The producers of ... dates for Charlotte, North Carolina. It is one of the ... 500 companies. The city is populated with more than a ... cover residents in both North and South Carolina. Viewers who ... medically-related can tune into WAXN-TV 64 Eyewitness News during the ...
(Date:5/24/2013)... NY (PRWEB) May 24, 2013 The ... is happy to announce that it has donated $10,000 to ... the women held captive in Cleveland, Ohio. , “When the ... Jesus, Michelle Knight, and Amanda Berry and her daughter had ... a decade, we were shocked and horrified,” said Integrative Nutrition ...
Breaking Medicine News(10 mins):Health News:Personal Injury Law Firm Issues New Infographic Detailing a Potential Link Between Stevens Johnson Syndrome and Common Children’s Medicines 2Health News:Personal Injury Law Firm Issues New Infographic Detailing a Potential Link Between Stevens Johnson Syndrome and Common Children’s Medicines 3Health News:Sharp Rise in ICU Admissions From U.S. Emergency Rooms 2Health News:Feasibility trial reports deployment of new device for TAVI in aortic insufficiency 2Health News:Health Briefs TV Presents May Air Dates for Charlotte, North Carolina 2Health News:Integrative Nutrition Donates $10,000 to the Cleveland Courage Fund 2
... April 23 (HealthDay News) -- It goes without saying that ... they can also be very expensive, an expert warns. ... a person bitten by a venomous snake, said Jill Heatley, ... in College Station. The total cost includes hospitalization, which ...
... The International and American Associations for Dental ... in children. These articles, titled "Hypoplasia-Associated Severe Early ... Page Caufield, New York University College of Dentistry) ... (lead author M.E.C. Elfrink, Academic Centre for Dentistry, ...
... destruction of the insulin-producing beta cells. Over 250,000 patients suffer ... daily insulin injections to maintain glucose metabolism. Replacement of the ... organ or isolated human beta cells is the only effective ... of organ donors this method can be offered to only ...
... St. Jude Children,s Research Hospital scientists have rewritten the ... it guards early brain cells from DNA damage. Such ... showed that cells in the developing brain require TopBP1 ... is copied prior to cell division. Investigators also reported ...
... That "brain freeze" headache you experience when eating ice cream ... change in brain blood flow, researchers report. What,s more, ... more troubling forms of headache such as migraine, the U.S. ... blood flow in 13 healthy adults as they sipped ice ...
... April 22 (HealthDay News) -- Tick season has started earlier ... gardeners and others who love the outdoors should take precautions ... People also should keep alert for symptoms of tick-borne ... tick-borne diseases such as Lyme disease, anaplasmosis and babesiosis -- ...
Cached Medicine News:Health News:Cost of Snakebite Therapy May Squeeze Victims' Wallets 2Health News:IADR/AADR publish studies on severe early childhood caries - proposes new classification 2Health News:IADR/AADR publish studies on severe early childhood caries - proposes new classification 3Health News:Xenotransplantation as a therapy for type 1 diabetes 2Health News:Protein prevents DNA damage in the developing brain and might serve as a tumor suppressor 2Health News:Protein prevents DNA damage in the developing brain and might serve as a tumor suppressor 3Health News:'Ice Cream Headaches' Might Offer Clues to Migraines 2Health News:Tick Season Starting Early This Year 2
(Date:5/23/2013)... , May 23, 2013  BioElectronics Corporation (OTC Pink: ... devices, comments on the FDA panel meeting for non-thermal ... Reclassification – Pulsed Shortwave Therapy Meeting was held on ... , USA.  The focus of the meeting was very ... to focus solely on the application of non-thermal shortwave ...
(Date:5/23/2013)... Conn. , May 23, 2013  CAS Medical Systems, ... medical devices for non-invasive patient monitoring, today announced that ... Officer,  will present at the 2 nd Annual Marcum ... Hyatt Hotel in New York City . ... p.m. ET in the Estate 10 room and will be ...
(Date:5/23/2013)... SAN DIEGO , May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ ... ) today announced the appointment of ... Officer.  Mr. Ramsay was most recently Vice President, ... http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100302/LA63139LOGO )     "With his established ... operational experience gained by working in our commercial ...
Breaking Medicine Technology:BioElectronics and Pulsed Shortwave Therapy Make Progress 2CASMED to Present at the 2nd Annual Marcum MicroCap Conference 2Halozyme Therapeutics Names David A. Ramsay Chief Financial Officer 2
... 14 The Clinical Trials,Bootcamp announces its inaugural ... staff and other participants in,clinical trial. It will ... Resort from May,14-17th, 2009. Physician investigators, clinical coordinators, ... how to incorporate,clinical trials into a practice, as ...
... in late 2008 or in early 2009 -, ... NUVO ) today announced positive results from the Phase ... rapidly produced and maintained anticoagulation with a rapid,return toward ... "NU172 has the potential to address many of ...
Cached Medicine Technology:Nuvelo Announces Positive Phase 1b Proof-of-Concept Data With Anticoagulant NU172 2Nuvelo Announces Positive Phase 1b Proof-of-Concept Data With Anticoagulant NU172 3Nuvelo Announces Positive Phase 1b Proof-of-Concept Data With Anticoagulant NU172 4
... ARUP Laboratories is a national reference laboratory ... research and development. ARUP offers an extensive ... medical tests in clinical and anatomic pathology. ... Laboratories' clients include more than half of ...
... is a national reference laboratory and a ... development. ARUP offers an extensive test menu ... in clinical and anatomic pathology. Owned by ... include more than half of the nation's ...
... Laboratories is a national reference laboratory and ... and development. ARUP offers an extensive test ... tests in clinical and anatomic pathology. Owned ... clients include more than half of the ...
... national reference laboratory and a worldwide leader ... offers an extensive test menu of highly ... and anatomic pathology. Owned by the University ... than half of the nation's university teaching ...
Medicine Products: