Association between metabolically healthy obesity/overweight and cardiovascular disease risk: A representative cohort study in Taiwan.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate the relationship between metabolically healthy obesity and cardiovascular disease risk in Taiwanese individuals.

Methods

Taiwanese individuals were recruited from a nationwide, representative community-based prospective cohort study and classified according to body mass index as follows: normal weight (18.5-23.9 kilogram (kg)/meter(m)2) and obesity/overweight (≥24 kg/m2). Participants without diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia and who did not meet the metabolic syndrome without waist circumference criteria were considered metabolically healthy. The study end points were cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality. Multivariable adjusted hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals were obtained from a Cox regression analysis.

Results

SUBMITTER: Yeh TL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7850496 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature