Obesity and cardiovascular disease: friend or foe?
Population
Patients with obesity and cardiovascular disease
Design
Review
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
Nuanced obesity-CVD links warrant caution interpreting BMI alone; leaves open validation of fitness and visceral adiposity metrics.
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Population
Patients with obesity and cardiovascular disease
This review highlights the nuanced relationship between obesity and cardiovascular disease, emphasizing the limitations of BMI and the importance of alternative metrics like visceral adiposity and cardiorespiratory fitness.
Cite This Study
Kim et al. (2015) studied this question.