Understanding Weight
Understanding Weight: Maintaining a healthy weight is an important part of overall health.
Everyone鈥檚 journey is different. Healthy choices made over time can make a difference for your body and quality of life.
How Weight Impacts Body Systems
Weight is an important part of metabolic health, the system that helps the body create, store, and use energy. Metabolic health is closely connected to heart and kidney health.
These systems are often described together as cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) health, since they work together and are all connected.
When weight reaches an unhealthy level, it can lead to higher blood pressure and blood glucose (sugar), along with lower heart and kidney function. Over time, these changes can increase the risk of diabetes, heart disease and kidney disease.
Living with excess weight increases risk of heart disease and stroke by at least 21% for men and 32% for women. As weight increases, so does risk.
Higher BMI is associated with increased risk for high blood pressure.
Higher BMI is linked to higher risk of Type 2 diabetes.
Higher waist circumference and higher BMI are associated with lower kidney function.
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