Heart Health
Obese teens' hearts in trouble
Are your children or grandchildren caught up in America's obesity epidemic? If so, they may be on the fast track to heart diseases usually seen in older adults.
New imaging techniques show that the hearts of obese adolescents are undergoing changes that could soon put them on an irreversible path to heart failure.
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