Obese nine-year-old girls at 'heart attack risk'

Obese nine-year-old girls at 'heart attack risk'

Extracts:

"Overweight girls as young as nine years old have an increased likelihood of suffering from short and long-term cardiovascular problems, a far-reaching US study has found. The authors of the ten-year study from the country's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute are warning that girls aged between nine and 12 are much more susceptible to obesity than teenagers.

More than 2,300 girls aged between nine and ten were studied over a decade as part of the research, with their height, weight, blood pressure and cholesterol recorded annually until they reached 18 years old."

"Publishing their results in the Journal of Paediatrics, the authors add that overweight girls were found to be up to 30 times more likely to suffer from obesity later in adulthood. In addition, girls of African-American descent were revealed to be 1.5 times more likely to be become overweight in adulthood than Caucasian girls."

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