By [http://EzineArticles.com/expert/Dianne_M._Buxton/40071]Dianne
M. Buxton
In a recent study, researchers of heart health conducted
tests and documented the development of heart failure in an ethnically diverse
group of nearly 7,000 men and women, age 45 to 84. This tracking began in 2000.
In this group, 79 developed congestive heart failure. 35
from this sub-group (44 percent) were physically obese. These people have a
body mass index, or BMI, of 30 or more. And on average, participants who were
obese were found to have higher levels of several key immune system proteins
involved in inflammation in their blood, than non-obese adults.
