A new study warns that many young adults have undetected thickening of the arteries — or atherosclerosis — which can lead to heart disease, stroke and death.
even if they’re young and apparently healthy — and can benefit from preventive changes in lifestyle.
“We know obesity is a bad thing but we’re dropping the ball on a large proportion of young adults who don’t meet traditional measures of obesity such as weight and BMI,” Larose said.
He noted that assessing visceral fat levels is easy to do in a doctor’s office. It’s just a matter of measuring waist circumference.
“My message to young adults is that you are not superhuman, you’re not immune to risk factors,” Dr. Beth Abramson, a foundation spokesperson, said in the news release. “It’s important to manage your risk factors at all ages. Lifestyle will eventually catch up with you. You are never too young to prevent heart disease.”
Research presented at meetings should be considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.
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