Pulmonary Embolism Support Group
By far the most common form of pulmonary embolism is a thromboembolism, which occurs when a blood clot, generally a venous thrombus, becomes dislodged from its site of formation and embolizes to the arterial blood supply of one of the lungs. Symptoms may include difficulty breathing, pain during breathing, and more rarely circulatory instability and death.
obesity paradox
http://www.theheart.org/article/1444155.do?utm_medium=email&utm_source=20120910_EN_Heartwire&utm_campaign=newsletter
"Those who were deemed overweight or obese by body-mass index (BMI) had a lower risk of death after PCI than normal-weight or underweight participants up to three years after hospitalization, report Dr Oskar Angers (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and colleagues in their paper, published online September 5, 2012 in the European Heart Journal."
"In an accompanying editorial [2], Drs Stephan von Haehlin, Oliver Hartmann, and Dr Stefan D Anker (Charit Medical School, Berlin, Germany) agree that this research strengthens the existing evidence for the obesity paradox. They conclude that weight loss in patients with chronic illness and a BMI of
http://www.theheart.org/article/1444155.do?utm_medium=email&utm_source=20120910_EN_Heartwire&utm_campaign=newsletter
"Those who were deemed overweight or obese by body-mass index (BMI) had a lower risk of death after PCI than normal-weight or underweight participants up to three years after hospitalization, report Dr Oskar Angers (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and colleagues in their paper, published online September 5, 2012 in the European Heart Journal."
"In an accompanying editorial [2], Drs Stephan von Haehlin, Oliver Hartmann, and Dr Stefan D Anker (Charit Medical School, Berlin, Germany) agree that this research strengthens the existing evidence for the obesity paradox. They conclude that weight loss in patients with chronic illness and a BMI of
less than 40 kg/m2 "is always bad, and in fact not a single study exists to suggest that weight loss in chronic illness makes patients live longer."
Now where did I put that cream puff? LOL
And lighten up guys! This isn't a joke but it certainly isn't intended to give advice to anyone whether they should lose weight or not.
Read the entire link and see that there are detractors on this finding, as there should be. (Science at work)
And no mention of leptin.