Obesity doesn't protect patients with cardiovascular disease

Why is it that study after study shows obese or overweight people with cardiovascular disease outliving their normal weight counterparts? Would this phenomenon, referred to as the obesity paradox, hold up when approached within different parameters? Now researchers say no: obesity is harmful, not helpful, to someone with cardiovascular disease, according to new research.

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