Study linking obesity to declining life expectancy
By 2035 there can be double digit increases in cases of heart disease and heart-disease related to the epidemic of obesity. According to a new study among US teenagers, if they continue to be obese in the year 2035, the life expectancy of Americans can actually go down.
In a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers said today's epidemic was setting the scene for tomorrow's public health crisis, one that doctors will not be able to head off with traditional blood pressure and cholesterol-lowering drugs.
The researchers said the lifestyle-driven disaster could increase the number of people with heart disease 16 percent over today's levels by 2035. That's an additional 100,000 cases.
The increase in obesity-related heart disease deaths could shoot up by as much as 19 percent, according to the projections in the study published Wednesday.
Some nine million US adolescents are overweight, according to the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Childhood obesity rates have tripled since the 1970s, and studies show that 80 percent of overweight adolescents become obese adults.
The findings also suggested that aggressive drug treatment would reduce but not eliminate the projected cardiac complications.
In a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers said today's epidemic was setting the scene for tomorrow's public health crisis, one that doctors will not be able to head off with traditional blood pressure and cholesterol-lowering drugs.
The researchers said the lifestyle-driven disaster could increase the number of people with heart disease 16 percent over today's levels by 2035. That's an additional 100,000 cases.
The increase in obesity-related heart disease deaths could shoot up by as much as 19 percent, according to the projections in the study published Wednesday.
Some nine million US adolescents are overweight, according to the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Childhood obesity rates have tripled since the 1970s, and studies show that 80 percent of overweight adolescents become obese adults.
The findings also suggested that aggressive drug treatment would reduce but not eliminate the projected cardiac complications.
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