Fat people ‘live longer after heart attack’

ObeseGood news for the seriously fat: if you survive your heart attack your prospects are excellent.

A study has thrown doubt on the idea that being fat is a delayed form of suicide. Obesity may increase the risks of a heart attack but it also increases the chances of long-term survival afterwards.

The reasons are not known, but obese and very obese patients who have been treated for a heart attack are less than half as likely to die in the next three years as people with a normal body mass index (BMI).

Dr Büttner the head of interventional cardiology at Herz-Zentrum, Bad Krozingen, Germany, who led the study, said that, although the study provided important information, people who were obese should not delay trying to lose weight.

Source: Times Online
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