RELATIONSHIP OF OBESITY TO CORONARY DISEASE AND HYPERTENSION

26 December 1953

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA)

Vol. 153 (17) , 1499-1501
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1953.02940340001001

Abstract

For many years, the relationship between obesity and heart disease and hypertension has presented a challenging problem. The physiological effects of obesity on the normal heart and its harmful influences on the diseased heart are well established.¹ Statistics compiled by insurance companies have shown conclusively that overweight alone is injurious and shortens life.²In middle and later life the lowest mortality ratios were observed in those whose weight was below the average for age.³There is overwhelming evidence, also, that obese persons have a much higher mortality rate from heart disease than those of average or lower weight. The difference has been as high as 60% for men who are 25% or more overweight.⁴ There have been few clinical studies on a possible etiological relationship between obesity and coronary disease and hypertension, and the results reported have been conflicting. The problem of the relationship of obesity

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