Being a weighty kid carries a heavy toll into adulthood. Overweight children grow up to have an elevated risk for blocked coronary arteries, a long-term Danish study reports.
“Our findings suggest that as children are becoming heavier worldwide, greater numbers of them are at risk” for heart disease, researchers from the Center for Health and Society in Copenhagen write in the Dec.
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