Comparison of the associations between non-traditional and traditional indices of adiposity and cardiovascular mortality: an observational study of one million person-years of follow-up.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objective

The most widely used adiposity index, body mass index (BMI), is not optimal to evaluate cardiovascular (CV) risk associated with overweight and obesity. We aimed to explore the association between traditional and non-traditional adiposity indices and CV mortality, and compare their discriminative ability for CV death.

Methods

We studied participants (age 19-79 years, BMI ≥18.5 kg/m²) from the population-based Norwegian Nord-Trøndelag Health Study 2 (HUNT 2). Traditional indices explored were BMI, waist circumference (WC) and waist- to-hip ratio, whereas non-traditional were estimated total body fat (eTBF), which is a sex-specific fat%-index, index of central obesity (WC/height) and a body shape index (ABSI) [WC/(BMI^2/3 × √height)].

SUBMITTER: Ofstad AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6760583 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature