September 2012

Results from world’s first registry of pregnancy and heart disease reveals important differences between countries and heart conditions

Results from the world’s first registry of pregnancy and heart disease have shown that most women with heart disease can go through pregnancy and delivery safely, so long as they are adequately evaluated, counselled and receive high quality care. However, this is not always the case: women and babies in developing countries are more likely […]

“Fitness and fatness”: not all obese people have the same prognosis. Second study sheds light on the ‘obesity paradox’

People can be obese but metabolically healthy and fit, with no greater risk of developing or dying from cardiovascular disease or cancer than normal weight people, according to the largest study ever to have investigated this, which is published online in the European Heart Journal [1]. The findings show there is a subset of obese […]