People with “apple” body are more risk of diabetes and heart problems.Fat located in the lumbar zone can mean greater health risks.
Excess weight is a risk factor itself, but the location of fat in the body is also a fact to take into account, according to a recent study.It is that the probability of cardiovascular and diabetes diseases is greater among people who accumulate fat in the abdomen instead of hips and buttocks.
The obesity diagnosis is defined on the relationship between weight and size established by the body mass index (BMI).Obesity, it is known, is one of the main causes of coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
The risk decreases in people who accumulate fat in the hips and buttocks
"However, for any determined BMI, the body fat distribution can vary substantially: some individuals proportionally storing more fat around their visceral organs (abdominal adiposity) than in their thighs and hip," explains Sekar Kathiresan, attached professor in medicine inHarvard University and main author of the research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)."In observational studies," says abdominal adiposity with type 2 diabetes and heart disease. "
For the study, data from more than 400 thousand participants were analyzed since 2007. The researchers found that the genetic predisposition to a higher waist-catering proportion adjusted by the BMI was associated with an increase in the levels of quantitative risk factors (cholesterol,Insulin, glucose and blood pressure), as well as a greater risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease.Non -genetic factors such as diet, smoking and lack of physical exercise also influence.
Non -genetic factors such as diet, smoking and lack of physical exercise also influence
Among their conclusions, the researchers affirm that the results obtained support previous observations that associated adiposity in the panza area with greater risk of metabolic diseases.And they affirm that the waist-chair index adjusted by the BMI can be useful as a biomarker for treatments, because it would allow to elaborate prevention strategies for type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease in people with genetic predispositions for a body in the form of "apple".