TY - JOUR
T1 - Preventive Health Care Should Focus on Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Not Obesity Alone
AU - Sturgiss, E.A.
AU - Agostino, J.
PY - 2018/2/20
Y1 - 2018/2/20
N2 - Caleyachetty et al. (1) aimed to examine “the associations among metabolically healthy obese individuals and 4 different presentations of incident cardiovascular disease in a contemporary population.” This aim would have been better achieved by calculating the absolute cardiovascular (CV) risk for each patient and then comparing event rate stratified by body mass index. This would have contributed to the ongoing debate about the impact of obesity on absolute CV risk.
AB - Caleyachetty et al. (1) aimed to examine “the associations among metabolically healthy obese individuals and 4 different presentations of incident cardiovascular disease in a contemporary population.” This aim would have been better achieved by calculating the absolute cardiovascular (CV) risk for each patient and then comparing event rate stratified by body mass index. This would have contributed to the ongoing debate about the impact of obesity on absolute CV risk.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.10.107
DO - 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.10.107
M3 - Letter
SN - 0735-1097
VL - 71
SP - 815
EP - 816
JO - Journal of the American College of Cardiology
JF - Journal of the American College of Cardiology
IS - 7
ER -