Weight gain and diabetes ‘stall progress in reducing heart attacks and strokes’
Weight gain and diabetes ‘stall progress in reducing heart attacks and strokes’ (Lauren Hurely/PA)
Efforts to reduce the number of heart attacks and strokes are being stalled by weight gain and increasing diabetes prevalence, research suggests.
Decreases in three major risk factors contributed to a fall in the number of heart attacks and strokes between 1990 and 2014, according to a study.
But progress in reducing numbers further has been hampered by increasing body mass index (BMI) and diabetes prevalence over the same period.
Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine used Scottish health data to calculate the change in numbers of heart attacks and strokes in Scotland between 1990 and 2014.
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