{"id":6868,"date":"2019-01-21T08:30:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T13:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/?p=6868"},"modified":"2019-05-31T22:36:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T02:36:09","slug":"slim-but-sedentary-might-face-same-heart-risks-as-overweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=6868","title":{"rendered":"Slim but sedentary might face same heart risks as overweight"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Reuters Health) – Adults with a healthy weight but a sedentary lifestyle may have the same risk for heart attacks or strokes as people who are overweight, a recent study suggests.<\/p>\n

Researchers found that normal-weight people who spent much of the day sitting but still hit minimum recommended weekly exercise targets of 150 minutes of moderate activity had about a 58 percent lower risk of a heart attack or stroke than overweight people.<\/p>\n

But when individuals with a normal weight sat around most of the time and got very little exercise, their risk of serious cardiac events wasn\u2019t significantly different from that of overweight people.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing at normal weight is not sufficient to be healthy,\u201d said lead study author Arch Mainous of the University of Florida in Gainesville.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis matters for patients because they may get a false sense of security by just looking at the number on the scale,\u201d Mainous said by email. \u201cA sedentary lifestyle can erode the advantage of a healthy weight and increase the cardiovascular risk to that of their overweight counterparts.\u201d<\/p>\n

When people are sedentary – especially in middle age and beyond – they lose lean muscle mass and cardiorespiratory fitness, Mainous said.<\/p>\n

Participants in the current study were ages 40 to 79, without a history of heart disease. Researchers used the standard American College of Cardiology\/American Heart Association risk-factor calculator (www.cvriskcalculator.com\/<\/a>) to assess people’s risk of events like heart attacks and strokes. A high risk was at least a 7.5 percent chance of this happening over the next decade. A “low risk” was a less than 7.5 percent chance.<\/p>\n

Researchers identified people as being at a healthy weight if they had a body mass index (BMI, a ratio of height to weight) of 18.5 to 24.9 and overweight if their BMI was from 25 to 29.9. (A BMI calculator is online here:\u00a0bit.ly\/2tXeEf4.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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