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Study: Women who are pear-shaped may be healthier than apple-shaped
Postmenopausal women who have pear-shaped bodies are healthier than those with apple-shaped bodies and they are at lesser risk of heart and blood vessel problems, a study has found. The study, published in the European Heart Journal, found that storing a greater proportion of body fat in the legs (pear-shaped) was linked to a significantly decreased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in these women.
"Our findings suggest that postmenopausal women, despite having normal weight, could have varying risk of cardiovascular disease because of different fat distributions around either their middle or their legs," said Dr Qibin Qi, who works at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the US.
"In addition to overall body weight control, people may also need to pay attention to their regional body fat, even those who have a healthy body weight and normal BMI," he said.
The study involved 2,683 women who were part of the Women's Health Initiative in the US, which recruited nearly 162,000 postmenopausal women between 1993 and 1998 and followed them until February 2017.
The researchers found that women in the top 25 per cent of those who stored most fat round their middle or trunk (apple-shaped) had nearly double the risk of heart problems and stroke when compared to the 25 per cent of women with the least fat stored around their middle.
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