There’s No ‘Healthy Obesity’ for Women, Study Finds

Source: Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter Obese women who have been healthy for decades may still be on the path to heart problems, a new study suggests. “If you are obese, but free of disease like diabetes or hypertension, it does not mean you are free of the risk for cardiovascular disease,” said lead researcher Matthias Schulze. “You are still at a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, compared to normal-weight healthy women.” Schulze, who’s with the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, in Nuthetal, cautioned that this study can’t prove obesity caused heart issues, just that’s there’s an association. High blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes may double the risk for heart attack and stroke, but as many as one-third of obese women don’t suffer from these metabolic diseases, the researchers said. In the study, Schulze and his colleagues collected data