Doctors told about the unexpected benefits of obesity

Being overweight not only increases the likelihood of becoming a victim of diabetes and heart and vascular disease, but protects its owners from death after strokes, writes RIA News with reference to the press service of the American Academy of Neurology.

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In recent years, scientists are finding more and more hints that obesity not only increases the load on the skeleton, contributes to the development of metabolic problems and is one of the causes of diabetes, but also negatively affects other parts of the body. For example, recently, scientists from the United States found that overweight in women contributes to the recurrence of breast cancer, and also accelerates brain aging and causes changes in its work.

“Our colleagues recently noticed that being overweight increases the likelihood of survival in people who have suffered severe kidney and heart disease. Therefore, we decided to test whether there is a connection between obesity and strokes,” says Zuolu Liu from the University of California at Los Angeles (USA).

On the other hand, recently, European and American physicians have found some unexpected advantages of overweight. In particular, it turned out that its owners survive much more often, falling into intensive care with serious infectious diseases. In addition, they live significantly longer after diagnosing heart failure than the other cores.

Liu and her colleagues came to the conclusion that something similar was characteristic of strokes, following the fate of about a thousand elderly California residents who had recently experienced severe cerebral hemorrhage. Dividing them into five groups according to obesity, for three months, scientists watched how quickly their recovery took place.

As it turned out, overweight is extremely beneficial effect on the health of their wards. The most obese patients, Liu and her team, died by 62% less often than normal-weight stroke victims. A similar situation was observed among carriers of less extreme forms of obesity and overweight.
Something opposite was characteristic of overly thin patients - they could not recover from a stroke one and a half times more often than older Americans without extra pounds. Why this is so, scientists do not yet know.

“A possible explanation for this is that overweight people have a significantly larger “reserve” of nutrients, which helps them survive if the fight against the consequences of a stroke is prolonged. This is still a hypothesis, and more observations are needed to test it on the relationship between body mass index and cerebral hemorrhages,” concludes Liu.

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