My Overweight Child: Rapid Heartbeat Predicts Obesity

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Saturday, December 20, 2008

Rapid Heartbeat Predicts Obesity

A heart rate of 80 or more beats per minute increases a person's chances of developing diabetes becoming obese, according to two studies from Northwestern University in Illinois and Kurume University in Japan.

The NU researchers studied Chicagoans over a 33-year period; the Japanese team followed 614 people from rural farm areas starting in 1979. Both found that a rapid heartbeat predicts obesity and diabetes.

This study was published in the American Journal of Hypertension.

Labels: causes of childhood obesity, heartbeat, predictors