Stents reduce the risk of heart attacks in obese people
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Posted on Jul 02, 2008, 8 p.m.
By Jeanelle Topping
Obese people who have had stents placed in diseased arteries are less likely to have heart attacks than people of average weight, Reuters has reported.
Obese people who have had stents placed in diseased arteries are less likely to have heart attacks than people of average weight, Reuters has reported.
An investigation by Dr Ahmed A Khattab of the Segeberger Kliniken in Bad Segeberg, Germany, and colleagues discovered that obese people who had coronary stents inserted had a better chance of avoiding cardiac disease than normal-sized people.
Scientists studied 607 coronary disease patients who were treated with stents which included 176 normal weight patients, 289 overweight patients, and 142 obese patients.
Over the period of a year results showed that normal weight patients had a 10.8 per cent chance of heart-related diseases such as strokes compared with obese people who only had a seven per cent risk.
Dr Ahmed A Khattab recommends that larger and more randomized trials are needed to confirm the results of the study.
According to the World Health Organization, 700 million people will be obese by 2015.
