Preventive Health Care Should Focus on Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Not Obesity Alone

E.A. Sturgiss, J. Agostino

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)815-816
Number of pages2
JournalJournal of the American College of Cardiology
Volume71
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Feb 2018
Externally publishedYes

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