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Obesity May Offer Protection After Stenting
Typically when we read about obesity, it is reported how bad being obese and overweight can be for your heart. But there is one instance, according to a recent study, where obesity may offer some protection after stenting. The researchers found that obese patients who had stents placed in diseased arteries had a lower incidence of adverse cardiac events than their normal-weight counterparts.
Dr. Ahmed A. Khattab of the Segeberger Kliniken in Bad Segeberg, Germany, and colleagues note in a report in the American Journal of Cardiology that continued research and larger randomized trials need to be conducted to confirm whether or not these findings bear the same results as they did in the
small studies using drug-eluting stents.
Khattab’s team analyzed the outcomes at one year for 607 patients with coronary artery disease who were treated with stents that release the immune-suppressing drug sirolimus. The group included 176 normal weight patients, 289 overweight patients, and 142 obese patients. At 30 days, the incidence of adverse cardiac events was 3.4 percent in the normal weight group and 3.1 percent in overweight patients, compared with just 2.8 percent in obese patients.
At the one year mark, the combined totals of incidence of death, heart attack stroke and repeat stentings were higher in the normal weight patients and overweight patients (10.8% vs. 11.8%) versus the obese patients, at only 7%.
You can read more posts by Sandy Robinson at her other health blogs: Fighting Fatigue & IC Disease. Sandy also writes for the American Idolist site on WebbleYou.
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