Complications of Obesity.

One of the biggest side effects of having an obese lifestyle is heart disease and heart failure. Until recently the relation between obesity and coronary heart disease was viewed as indirect. Long-term longitudinal studies, however, indicate that obesity not only relates to but independently predicts coronary atherosclerosis. This relation appears to exist for both men and women with minimal increases in BMI (Body Mass Index). Left ventricular hypertrophy is common in patients with obesity and to some extent is related to systemic hypertension. Left ventricular hypertrophy is the thickening of the myocardium muscle of the left ventricle of the heart and systematic hypertension is the elevation of arterial blood pressure. However, abnormalities in left ventricular mass and function also occur in the absence of hypertension and may be related to how severe the obesity can be. This relationship may be a cause and effect that when weight increases, so does blood pressure, whereas when weight decreases, blood pressure falls. Increased left ventricular volume and wall stress promotes increased stroke probability. However, in obese patients, the absence of hypertension increases stroke volume and cardiac output as well as diastolic dysfunction. These changes in the left ventricle are related to sudden death in obese patients. Having an obese lifestyle really is more complicated and more severe than you really think. There are many other complications from obesity that don’t immediately implicate death but the more complications you receive, the closer you are to death. That was just a few of many complications that can be acquired due to obesity.

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http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/96/9/3248.full