Predictive ability of six obesity measures to identify 7-year fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular events: A population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Globally, most people die from cardiovascular diseases. We aimed to compare predictive ability of six obesity indices, including body mass index, waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, waist-to-height ratio, conicity index, and abdominal volume index, to identify people at risk of fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular events, in a cohort study.

Methods

We studied 5147 participants in a baseline population-based cohort study conducted in northern Iran. The obesity measures were calculated in enrollment phase (2009-2010), and the cardiovascular events were recorded during a 7-year follow-up phase (2010-2017). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses and Cox hazard regression models were applied, considering the obesity measures as predictors, and the 7-year c

SUBMITTER: Motamed N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9463460 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature