A recent study has claimed that for every five-unit increase in BMI in women, there is raise of 23 percent heart disease risk in them.
A team of researchers from Oxford University was involved in the study for a decade and observed the health of 1.2 million women in England and Scotland during the entire time with an average age of 56.
The study shown that, one among every eleven lean, middle aged women with an average BMI of 21 are going go get hospitalized or die due to heart related diseases especially between the ages of 55 and 74, the Telegraph reported.
The study suggested that with the increase in women's BMI, the risk of heart disease reaches up to one in six for obese women with BMI 34 on average.
According to the World Health Organisation, a "normal" BMI ranges between 18.5 and 25 but the study observed that even under this range, the risk of getting heart disease grew higher with the increase in BMI.
The least risk of dying from heart conditions lies between BMI 20 and 25 and if increased to 32.5, it began to accelerate much more rapidly.
Dr Dexter Canoy, who led the study, said that the risk of developing CHD can be triggered with a slight increase in BMI, and this condition is not only seen in obese women but also among those who are not considered to be obese.
He added that slight changes in BMI along with a healthy lifestyle with no smoking, no alcohol consumption and enhanced physical activities could potentially prevent the occurrence of CHD for a large number of people.
The details of the study have been published in the BMC Medicine journal.
-With inputs from ANI
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