Obesity, metabolic risk and adherence to healthy lifestyle behaviours: prospective cohort study in the UK Biobank.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Contested evidence suggests that obesity confers no risk to health in people who have a healthy lifestyle, particularly if there are no metabolic complications of obesity. The aim was to examine the association between adherence to lifestyle recommendations and the absence of metabolic complications on the incident or fatal cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality across different categories of body mass index (BMI).

Methods

This contemporary prospective cohort study included 339,902 adults without cardiovascular disease at baseline, recruited between 2006 and 2010 from the UK Biobank and followed until 2018-2020. The main exposures were four healthy lifestyle behaviours: never smoker, alcohol intake ≤ 112g/ week, 150 min moderate physical activity or 75 min

SUBMITTER: Heath L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8845299 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature