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Johns Hopkins Medicine

Lifetime Obesity

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People with lifetime obesity like Mr. A are at a much higher risk of heart failure than the newly obese at an older age like Mr. B. Obesity at any age can raise heart failure risk though. For every five-point increase in BMI, a person’s heart failure risk increases by 34 percent.

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