Description: (Best Syndication) Pinon Hills - A new study says that obese children will be prone to heart attacks when they get older. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and Columbia University Medical Center estimate up to 37 percent of males and 44 percent of females will be obese when these teenagers turn 35 years old in 2020.

They took a virtual snapshot of overweight adolescents back in 2000 and say that these kids are expected to have more heart disease and chronic chest pain. These kids will be more likely to die before the age of 50. Normally, they would not have to worry about heart disease until they were much older.

Since we tend to gain weight as we age, the problem is compounded. The model suggests that there will be more than 100,000 extra cases of heart disease by 2035. This is a 16 percent increase over today’s numbers.




There will be 19 percent more obesity-related CHD (Coronary Heart Disease) deaths. CHD is the end result of the accumulatio