Why Prolonged Exposure is a Health Risk
QHHL 
Dec 16 2020
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Sometimes, it isn’t only a particular health threat that’s the problem. Here’s why time could be pivotal in determining your health threat.
At certain times in your life, you will be exposed to things that threaten your health. This could include bad habits that you pick up and drop. And it may also include places that you live in for a certain amount of time. New research is now showing that correcting these health risks may not help as much as you think. And this long term health threats could be a major threat to your health now and in the future.
There are some things that are obvious health risks. They can cause both long- and short-term damage to various parts of your body. These can include:
Obviously, the worse these factors are, the worse the threat to your health. And that also applies to how long these problems persist. If you’re in a city with poor air for a few days, the threat is obviously smaller than if you grow up there.
However, research is now showing that it may not be as easy as simply removing the health risk. This may not decrease the damage to your health as much as you think.
New studies show that your health risk may not go back to normal after exposure to a health threat.
For example, a recent study shows examined the effect of obesity on cardiometabolic risk factors. These are markers that are used to evaluate the risk of heart problems and include blood pressure, cholesterol levels, and blood sugar measurements. The study showed that obesity was associated with greater cardiometabolic risk factors. This seems like an obvious result.
However, the study also showed that the risk wasn’t the same for every obese person. Greater obesity duration was associated with worse results on all of these markers. This applied particularly to blood sugar level tests.
Participants who were obese for less than 5 years had blood sugar tests that were 5% higher than normal. The results of participants who were obese for 20 to 30 years were 20% higher than the control group. These results persisted even after the tests were adjusted to account for obesity severity. Blood pressure and cholesterol levels also tended to be higher with longer obesity duration.
These results show that it can’t be as simple as removing or reducing a health risk. This doesn’t turn back the clock and remove the damage a health risk may have done. That’s why you need to work on reducing or eliminating health threats as soon as possible. That’s the best and only way to protect your long-term health.
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