What's your Heart Attack risk? ( Worth reading)

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Doctors often look at weight to predict heart attack risk, but identifying people with metabolic syndrome, a newly recognized combination of health problems, may be a better predictor. Metabolic syndrome is definced as having at least 3 of the following: high blood pressure, blood sugar, low levels of HDL (good cholesterol), and a fat midsection. Women with suspected heart disease, those with metabolic syndrome, whether overweight, or thin, were twice as likely to die or suffer a heart attack, stroke or congestive heart failure as those who didn't have it. Surprisingly, normal-weight women with metabolic syndrome had a higher risk than obese or overweight patients without it.