Adiposity has differing associations with incident coronary heart disease and mortality in the Scottish population: cross-sectional surveys with follow-up.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Investigation of the association of excess adiposity with three different outcomes: all-cause mortality, coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality and incident CHD.

Design

Cross-sectional surveys linked to hospital admissions and death records.

Subjects

19 329 adults (aged 18-86 years) from a representative sample of the Scottish population.

Measurements

Gender-stratified Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) for all-cause mortality, CHD mortality and incident CHD. Separate models incorporating the anthropometric measurements body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) or waist-hip ratio (WHR) were created adjusted for age, year of survey, smoking status and alcohol consumption.

Results

For both genders, BMI

SUBMITTER: Hotchkiss JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3647234 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature