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Weight gain in teens may worsen adult heart health
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 08 - 08 - 2006


Preventing children from
accumulating too much body fat between adolescence and young
adulthood could help protect their heart health, a new study
suggests, according to Reuters.
Individuals who showed the highest gains in body mass index
(BMI), a measure of weight in relation to height, between the
ages of 13 and 27, also showed the greatest gains in mass of
the heart's main pumping chamber, the left ventricle (LV), Dr.
Julia Steinberger of the University of Minnesota Medical School
in Minneapolis and colleagues found. Greater LV mass has been
tied to an increased risk of heart disease, heart failure and
stroke.
Whether a person was thin or heavy at the study's outset
had no effect on the link between greater BMI gain and LV mass.
"This finding suggests that strategies to limit excessive
weight gain between childhood and adulthood may prevent
unwarranted increases in LV mass," Steinberger and her team
write in the American Journal of Cardiology.
To investigate how excess weight might influence LV mass,
the researchers assessed BMI, LV mass in 132 healthy children,
average age 13, and then reassessed them at age 27.
An individual's BMI at both time points were strongly
correlated, as were LV mass measurements, while BMI and LV mass
also were associated with one another. The BMI-LV mass
relationship became stronger over time.
The researchers also found that people who gained 5.5 or
more points in BMI during the course of the study showed a
proportionately larger increase in LV mass than those who
experienced lower BMI gains, regardless of whether they were
thin or heavy at the beginning of the study.
People who showed the largest increases in BMI were more
likely to have risk factors for the metabolic syndrome, a
constellation of factors including insulin resistance that
boosts heart disease and diabetes risk.
"These results reaffirm the important role of obesity and
the rate of weight gain at the transition between adolescence
and young adulthood in the development of increased LV mass and
cardiovascular risk factors," the researchers conclude.


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