Obesity has become a global pandemic, affecting more than 50% of people, who are either overweight or dealing with obesity ...

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Obesity and Heart Disease: Understanding Risks &amp; Prevention

[Music] hello I am Dr gav Agarwal consultant Interventional cardiologist Nar Hospital barad let's talk about obesity today obesity is a global pandemic now and even in our country more than 50% patients are either overweight or obese and if we follow the Western guide lines then it does not cooperate with our population and we have a separate cut off for defining obesity and overweight population in the Asian population we need to understand a parameter called as body mass index which is very important to know the cut off for overweight and obesity whenever your BMI is more than 22.5 you will be overweight and when it has crossed 25 you are defined as obese so what is the importance of you know uh being overweight or obese the most important fact is this indirectly corroborates with heart disease obese patients tend to have centry pital obesity means all the fat in their body tends to accumulate in their abdomen they have abnormal waist hip ratio they have high level of triglycerides which come under bad cholesterol column they can also have low HDL cholesterol which is another indirect marker for heart disease because higher the HDL cholesterol it is more protective for the heart but obese patients tend to have lower HDL cholesterol so these obese patients will indirectly or eventually develop some form of heart disease either blockage in their coronary arteries or their heart muscles will get thickened and they will develop an entity called as heart failure with preserved injection fraction so that is why we need to understand that we need to stay healthy eat healthy eat food that is low in triglyceride low in sugar content avoid rice or reduce the amount of rice consumption reduce the amount of sweet consumption because these indirectly increase the triglyceride level sugar levels and eventually obesity and heart disease and that is why we need to stay fit exercise regularly try to maintain an ideal BMI which should be somewhere between 18 to 22 and that is how we can stay healthy and have a healthy heart thank you [Music]

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