Health aNd Fitness Guide

Obese children are like obese adults, when it comes to heart diseases. Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine say, as a child’s body mass index for age increases, both the relaxation and contraction phases of the heartbeat alter. A new tissue Doppler-imaging technique, ‘vector velocity imaging’, helped the researchers to trace the subtle variations. Alarmingly, these changes are similar to those seen in obese adults who are prone to heart diseases.