Key result
Higher BMI links to elevated cardiovascular risk factors without reporting quantitative outcomes.
Why the study?
Obesity is associated with cardiovascular risk factors, but its impact on outcomes in cardiac surgery requires further evaluation.
No quantitative results reported; leaves open any BMI-cardiovascular risk association for future study.
(Abstracted from J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth, 30(5):1308–1316, 2016) Body mass index (BMI) is defined as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters and is used in classifying obesity; a person with BMI of greater than 30 kg/m2 is defined as obese, and a person with BMI equal to 25 to 29.9 kg/m2 is defined as overweight. Obesity has been observed to be associated with several risk factors for cardiovascular disease, which include hypertension, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, and diabetes mellitus.
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Gao et al. (2017) studied Cardiac Surgery. Body Mass Index was evaluated. The provided abstract contains only background definitions of body mass index and its association with cardiovascular risk factors, reporting no quantitative study results.
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