By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – Though previous research has suggested high blood pressure may be more dangerous for thinner people, a new study finds the cardiovascular disease risks are similar – and high – for the lean, overweight and the obese. “Some studies done in the past 30 years suggested that for the adverse outcomes associated with hypertension – such as heart attacks and stroke – lean or normal weight people with hypertension had worse outcomes than overweight or obese people with hypertension,” said lead author Laura A. Colangelo of the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. “Such a finding might cause one to infer mistakenly that high blood pressure is not important for the overweight or obese but is important for lean or normal weight people,” she said.

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