Obesity tied to early heart attack

Obesity raises the risk of having a heart attack at a younger age -- up to 12 years before a normal-weight person, according to Michigan researchers who reviewed records of more than 111,000 patients who had experienced a heart attack. They found the leanest patients had a first heart attack at the average age of 74.6 years, compared to 58.7 years for the most obese. Women were at the greatest risk at both weight endpoints...more