Does greater adiposity measured by alternative anthropometric indices increase the risk of adverse outcomes in patients with HFrEF?
In patients with HFrEF, newer indices of adiposity that do not rely on weight challenge the obesity paradox by demonstrating that greater adiposity increases the risk of heart failure hospitalization.
In patients with HFrEF, alternative anthropometric measurements showed no evidence for an 'obesity-survival paradox'. Newer indices that do not incorporate weight showed that greater adiposity was clearly associated with a higher risk of HF hospitalization.
Butt et al. (Wed,) studied this question.