After decades of research showing the impossibly close link between obesity and heart problems, a Swedish study has finally proven what we've long suspected: Excess weight does cause heart disease. Obesity alone - without other risk factors like high cholesterol, inactivity and diabetes - raises a person's risks of heart disease by nearly a third, previous research has shown. At last, the Karolinska Institute researchers used a method called Mendelian randomization prove that high BMI is a direct cause of heart disease. The study, published in the European Heart Journal, also found cardiovascular disease risk rose in tandem with mutations predicting increases in fat mass. But they stressed the most important factors implicated in the development of cardiovascular disease are diet and physical activity.

Source: Daily Mail June 13, 2019 23:03 UTC