Their weight should be taken into account in conjunction with other risk factors. “You’ve got to combine weight loss with exercise and a healthier diet,”
Said Peters. “I think we need to change how people eat fundamentally and that would be much better than people just losing weight.”
Niki Iranpour, MD, is a member of the ABC News Medical Unit and a resident in internal medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
