Half the nation’s overweight teens have unhealthy blood pressure, cholesterol or blood sugar levels that put them at risk for future heart attacks and other cardiac problems, new federal research says:
http://health.heraldtribune.com/2012/05/21/a-study-of-overweight-teenagers-finds-reasons-to-worry/
New research, to be unveiled today at a European conference in Serbia, has found that obese adolescents with no symptoms of heart disease had damaged hearts with thicker walls.
