Fat Neck Links to Heart Risk
Written by WTJ on March 12, 2009 – 8:38 pm -
It is not how fat you look that determines you risk of having a heart disease, but it is where your fat is located in your body that determines it. People with trim waistline please don’t laugh too early as you are risk free from heart disease.
Research team of the Framingham Heart Study presented the thickness of a person’s neck can help to determine the heart risk at a meeting of American Heart Association. This can give as many as or more information about the heart risk than waist measuring. 3,300 women and men over age 51 were studied by measuring their necks, the cholesterol level and blood glucose level. The risk of getting heart disease is determined by the level of cholesterol and blood glucose. The average circumferences of the neck for men are 40.5cm and 34.2cm for women. People with fatter neck have lower good cholesterol, which is the high-density lipoprotein (HDL), and higher level of blood glucose. The thickness of the neck does not influence the bad cholesterol, namely low-density lipoprotein (LDL).
People with 3cm wider neck have 2.2 mg decrease in good cholesterol per decilitre of blood (mg/dl), whereas women are 2.7mg/dl. Human subjects with 3cm more neck size have increased blood glucose of 3.0mg/dl for men and 2.1 mg/dl for women.
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