WASHINGTON - Fat and healthy? Don't scoff, say researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx.
At least half of overweight adults and a third of obese men and women have normal blood pressure and other measures of heart health, Dr. Judith Wylie-Rosett reports in the latest edition of The Archives of Internal Medicine.
Participants were examined and filled out questionnaires for the National Health and Nutritional Examination Surveys between 1999 and 2004. Most admitted they seldom exercised.
Fifty-one percent of those who were overweight and 32 percent of the obese had healthy levels of cholesterol, , blood sugar and blood pressure and other heart-risk factors.
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