Over 75% of all the cases of hypertension are reported to be found as a result of obesity (AOA). An obese person between the ages of twenty and forty-five are five to six times as likely to develop hypertension than their non-obese counterparts (Salinsky). In addition to the increased blood pressure that is common in obese patients, it has also been found that being "overweight or obese can increase your risk of illness and death associated with coronary heart disease" due to the effect that it had on the blood lipid levels (AOA)...
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In fact, the American Heart Association has now begun to recognize obesity as "a major risk for heart attack" (AOA). Another major health risk attributed to obesity is diabetes. Up to 90% of people with type 2 diabetes were reported as being overweight or obese (AOA). According to the National Health Policy Forum (NHPF), "Obesity complicates the management of type 2 diabetes by increasing insulin resistance and glucose intolerance, which makes drug treatment for type 2 diabetes less effective"...
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