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Study Shows Risk Factors Like Excess Weight and Diabetes Can Increase Size of Heart Ventricle
Jump to full article: WebMD, 2009-06-09
Author: Bill Hendrick WebMD Health News
Intro: Smoking, high blood pressure, excess weight, and diabetes are major risk factors for increasing the size of the heart's left ventricle (the main pumping chamber) a new study shows. An increase in the size and thickness, or "mass," of the left ventricle is a worrisome condition that can lead to heart failure.
Boston University researchers say that in a study of more than 4,200 people, those four risk factors were strongly correlated with greater left ventricle mass over the short term (four years), as well as over the long term (16 years).
The study is published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
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