Study in 7,000 men and women ties obesity, inflammatory proteins to heart failure risk

Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 16:07 in Health & Medicine

Heart specialists at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere report what is believed to be the first wide-scale evidence linking severe overweight to prolonged inflammation of heart tissue and the subsequent damage leading to failure of the body`s blood-pumping organ.

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