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

E.A. Sturgiss; J. Agostino

doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2017.10.107

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

E.A. Sturgiss
, J. Agostino

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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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	815-816
Number of pages	2
Journal	Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Volume	71
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2017.10.107
Publication status	Published - 20 Feb 2018
Externally published	Yes

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

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