Love handles put the squeeze on lungs

There's more bad news for people who carry excess weight around their waists: Not only is abdominal obesity associated with diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and a host of other health problems collectively known as 'metabolic syndrome,' a new study has found that a high waist circumference is strongly associated with decreased lung function - independent of smoking history, sex, body mass index (BMI) and other complicating factors...

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