Body fat tends to accumulate around the abdomen with age. According to past studies, excess belly fat, as compared to fat elsewhere in the body, can increase the risk of heart disease and Type 2 diabetes as well as the chances of a stroke occurring in middle age.
Women of age over 60 with extra abdominal fat appears to have higher risk of artery-clogging than those with either overall obesity or pockets of excess fat located elsewhere in the body.
This is the findings from a study that compared excess abdominal fat to extra peripheral fat, such as fat in the arms, hips and buttocks, as risk factors for atherosclerosis, the build-up of fats on the inner lining of arteries that can increase the risk of heart attack and stroke.
The study also found that women who had already experienced a heart attack tended to have a higher percentage of abdominal fat than those with no history of heart disease, regardless of whether they had extra body fat in other regions.
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