Weird Heart Science

This piece of science is so strange I won't try to paraphrase it. Here is the quote from a HealthDay article on Yahoo News: 

Heart failure patients who are carrying extra pounds have a lower risk of death and other heart failure-related health outcomes than thin or normal-weight patients, new research suggests. Researchers call it the "obesity paradox." Obesity raises the risk of developing heart failure, but once people have it, excess weight is associated with lower risk of death, of needing a heart transplant and other problems, the researchers said. 

I'm happy there is an upside to being overweight. The researchers who did this study are at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine.