Obesity alone not linked to fatal heart attacks
20th Sep 2005, 23:02 GMT
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Being overweight or obese, in the absence of high blood pressure, does not clearly increase the risk of death from heart attack or stroke, French researchers report in the journal Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.
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