PEOPLE with fatter legs are less likely to experience high blood pressure, new research has revealed. While experts say they know “confidently” that fat around your waist is bad for your health, th…
PEOPLE with fatter legs are less likely to experience high blood pressure, new research has revealed.
The analysis found that those with high percentages of leg fat were less likely than those with lower levels of fat to have high blood pressure. Visaria added: "Although we know confidently that fat around your waist is detrimental to health, the same cannot be said for leg fat. The higher number is the systolic pressure, which is the force at which your heart pumps blood around your body.You can request a blood pressure reading at your local GP as it hardly takes nay time, just a few minutes.A cuff is placed around your arm and inflated with a pump until the circulation is cut off.
In addition those with a higher percentage of leg fat were 39 per cent less likely to have systolic high blood pressure - which measures when the heart beats and is the second number on the reading.
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