Obesity and cardiovascular disease.
Minerva Pediatr
; 67(1): 25-32, 2015 Feb.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-25387321
ABSTRACT
Cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of mortality in rich countries and today it has the same meaning for health care as the epidemics of past centuries had for medicine in earlier times 50% of the population in these countries die of cardiovascular disease. The amount of cardiovascular disease is also increasing in the developing countries together with economic growth. By 2015 one in three deaths will globally be due to cardiovascular diseases. Coronary heart disease is a chronic disease that starts in childhood, even if the symptoms first occur in the middle age. The risks for coronary heart disease are well-known lipid disorders, especially high serum LDL-cholesterol concentration, high blood pressure, tobacco smoking, obesity, diabetes, male gender and physical inactivity. Obesity is both an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease but is also closely connected with several other risk factors. This review focuses on the connection between overweight or obesity and cardiovascular disease.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Doenças Cardiovasculares
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Sobrepeso
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Obesidade
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Minerva Pediatr
Ano de publicação:
2015
Tipo de documento:
Article