Obesity and cardivascular diseases: is there a connection?

Abstract

The review is about study of the interlinks of obesity and cardiovascular disease occurrence. It is shown the effect of adipose tissue on the prognosis of cardiovascular diseases, both acute and chronic forms of chronic heart disease, chronic heart failure. Problem of “paradox of obesity” is still an actual and debatable problem of modern medicine of internal diseases. Further researches are needed to study the relationship between adipose tissue and the cardiovascular system abnormalities.