Re: Mom's Belly Fat Predicts Kid's Heart Disease Risk


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A reliable indicator of whether a child
will develop metabolic syndrome, which increases their future risk of
heart disease and diabetes, is the mother's waist size, researchers
from Argentina report. This association was statistically significant
and independent of other risk factors.

Among 620 elementary school children, those whose mothers had waist
measurements of 88 centimeters (34.6 inches) or greater were twice as
likely to have three or more other risk factors for cardiovascular
disease and diabetes, known collectively as the metabolic syndrome.

"This study shows that mothers' waist circumference is the most
important component to children's metabolic syndrome and should always
be determined because it is cheaply and easily measured," Dr. Valeria
Hirschler of Durand Hospital in Buenos Aires and colleagues write.

A patient has metabolic syndrome when three or more of the five
following conditions are present: abdominal obesity, high triglyceride
levels, low levels high-density lipoprotein (HDL), or the "good"
cholesterol, high blood pressure and high blood glucose. Having
metabolic syndrome sharply increases a person's risk of heart disease
or type 2 diabetes.

Angela's doomed. That's the only place (besides my boobs) where I have any
fat. Always have had some fat there, even when I was underweight. That's
the only spot she has any fat too. Guess her child will be doomed as well.
We're all doomed!


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