Stronger muscles might be able to ward off some of the organ damage associated with obesity.
People with excess body fat who also had stronger handgrip strength were less likely to develop obesity-related heart, liver or kidney damage, researchers reported Wednesday in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
They were also less likely to die early, researchers noted.
"Our findings show that muscle strength is a powerful, early sign of who is most at risk of developing obesity-induced organ dysfunctions among people with excess body fat," researcher Dr. Yun Shen said in a news release. He's an assistant professor of chronic disease epidemiology at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La.
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