HIGH RATE OF HEART DISEASE IN FUTURE GENERATIONS

Karen Gatlin

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The New England Journal of Medicine reports that heart disease is expected to rise from 5% to 15%, primarily due to an epidemic of childhood obesity. Childhood obesity developed in the 1970's and has resulted in an increased occurrence of childhood Diabetes. Childhood obesity will cause a 15% increased incidence in coronary heart disease by 2035 and will produce a strain on our health care system. The data was the result of studies conducted in the U.S. and Denmark. See Baker, JL Childhood Body-Mass Index and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Adulthood, N Engl J Med 2007 357:2371-9 and Ludwig DS, Childhood Obesity-the Shape of Things to Come, N Engl J Med 2007 357:2325-27.