Time and again I go to the Cardio-Vascular Department at the
Northern General Hospital to have my INR tested.
As an overweight person - many may be astonished that my Q Risk
reading is only 16%. (That means a mere 16% chance of developing heart disease
before I am 75.)
Furthermore, whenever I look at the queues of people having blood
tests taken - most of whom presumably have heart problems - one fact leaps out,
time and again.
The majority of people - different faces each time - are of
standard or slim build. Five years of observation has not changed that
perception by a single jot.
I accept that there is a weight/diabetes link but refuse to accept
that that is necessarily the case with heart disease.
With a sole exception, all those I know who have died of heart
problems were slim.
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