'Healthy' Individuals May Be At Risk For Heart Disease
Monday, September 8, 2008 - 08:21
in Health & Medicine
In the face of a growing obesity epidemic in the United States, researchers 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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