'Healthy' individuals may be at risk for heart disease
Monday, September 8, 2008 - 02:49
in Health & Medicine
In the face of a growing obesity epidemic in the United States, researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have new study results that indicate that how much fat a person has is not as important as where that fat is located when assessing risk for cardiovascular events and metabolic disease.
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