Adhering to a healthy lifestyle could reduce coronary heart disease risk regardless of genetic susceptibility to abdominal obesity, according to the results of research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Body fat around one’s visceral organs, also known as abdominal adiposity, is a well-known risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD), Youngwon Kim, PhD, an assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing, told Healio. However, he said there has been no research exploring if adhering to a healthy lifestyle could help prevent CVD events.
“It is