Liposuction Good for Your Heart?
Liposuction Good for Your Heart?
Sucking out belly fat through liposuction might lower the risk for heart disease and stroke.
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" Those who are tired of sucking it in often choose to have it sucked out. Now it turns out liposuction might help shrink your waistline and your risk for heart disease. And you study of 300 liposuction and tummy -- patients looked at levels of fat molecules in the blood like cholesterol and triglycerides both before and after surgery. It -- these blood factor too high the chances of having a heart attack or stroke go up. Turns out triglycerides disappear with the unwanted fat."
" And it wasn't a small decrease it was actually a very quite a dramatic decrease it was 43% among. Individuals who have racetrack -- right levels before surgery."
" Lead researcher doctor Eric Swanson said liposuction had a bigger impact on triglycerides levels than medication or diet next."
" We reduce the volume -- fatty tissue in the body."
" Can actually reduces the levels of the things that those fat cells produced -- triglycerides."
" But doctors want to says the research doesn't support liposuction as a treatment for high triglycerides."
" I don't think you should other procedures necessarily without us here objective but if -- candidate anyway. It sure doesn't hurt."
" Experts what the American Heart Association say it is possible the liposuction has a positive effect on blood fat. The weather this translates into a lower risk of stroke or heart attack needs more study. Erika Edwards NBC news."
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