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No Time to ‘Weight’: The Link between Obesity and Stroke in Women

Author(s) -

Daphne Antillon,

Amytis Towfighi

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

women s health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.363

H-Index - 39

eISSN - 1745-5065

pISSN - 1745-5057

DOI - 10.2217/whe.11.36

Subject(s) - stroke (engine) , obesity , medicine , abdominal obesity , metabolic syndrome , affect (linguistics) , population , gerontology , environmental health , psychology , mechanical engineering , communication , engineering

The obesity epidemic in the USA threatens the gains that have been made in the prevention and treatment of stroke. Both obesity and stroke disproportionately affect women more than men. Understanding the effect of obesity on stroke risk in women may be a useful stepping stone to reducing the burden of stroke in this vulnerable population. This article reviews the association between stroke and general obesity, abdominal obesity and metabolic syndrome in women. All three factors have been shown to independently increase stroke risk in women.

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