Pre-Pregnancy Obesity and Associations with Stroke and Myocardial Infarction in Women in the Years after Childbirth: A Nationwide Cohort Study.

CONCLUSIONS: In apparently healthy women of fertile age, obesity was associated with increased risks of ischemic stroke and myocardial infarction. PMID: 24146252 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24146252?dopt=Abstract

Source: Circulation - October 21, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dalgas Schmiegelow M, Andersson C, Kober L, Skøtt Andersen S, Bjerring Olesen J, Jensen TB, Azimi A, Birgitte Nielsen M, Gislason G, Torp-Pedersen C Tags: Circulation Source Type: research