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Women warned obesity can kill

"Management of weight got our highest classification [for recommendations for change]," said Dr. Nanette K. Wenger, professor of medicine in the division of cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine and a co-author of the new guidelines. "These lifestyle behaviors can lead to risk factors later on.

“Management of weight got our highest classification [for recommendations for change],” said Dr. Nanette K. Wenger, professor of medicine in the division of cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine and a co-author of the new guidelines.

“These lifestyle behaviors can lead to risk factors later on. A lot of these obese women really do have risk factors because of their obesity, and they don't know it. This is an epidemic in today's society.”

The recommendations published Wednesday in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, are part of a new push to remind women that heart disease is the No.

Source: http://www.ajc.com/news/content/health/0204/05heart.html

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