By Dailymail.com Reporter and Mia De Graaf Health Editor For Dailymail.com
Published: 21:34 GMT, 4 March 2019 | Updated: 21:34 GMT, 4 March 2019
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Overweight people are 62 percent more likely to survive a stroke than their slighter peers, according to a new study.
Researchers found that, contrary to expectations, carrying some extra body fat may actually increase an elderly person's chances of surviving a brain bleed.
Experts call it the 'obesity paradox'.
The same has been found for other conditions, which are more common in heavier people, but for some reason less deadly.
But this is the first evidence that fat could be protective against a stroke.
Previous studies have shown overweight elderly people have a lower death risk from heart disease and kidney disease. Now a new study by UCLA shows the same for stroke survival
'It was first noticed that carrying extra weight may play a role in survival for people who had suffered from kidney and heart disease, so we felt the need to investigate whether it also was tied to improved stroke survival,' study
