SEGARAN RAMALU NAIDOO
Okay, thank you.  I must try and be as brief as possible in the answer, obesity we know is a factor that leads to heard disease or shall we say, that contributes to a heart disease, but only in the instance where the other factors actually produce organic coronary narrowing.
	I think it is well accepted that obesity alone, like in the black female, will not cause a heart attack.  It is just a minor factor in coronary heart disease.  It is, in my opinion, it probably plays a lower role to the contribution of coronary artery disease, than do hypertension which is high blood pressure, and smoking and diabetes and genetic tendencies, those very factors.
	Just to summarise, obesity doesn't cause heart attacks on its own.  If it ever causes deaths on its own, obesity, it is something that is unknown to me, on its own.