Scientific statement demonstrates obesity as a major modifiable risk factor for coronary heart disease, highlighting the urgent need for clinical weight-management strategies.
Key Points
To reclassify obesity as a major, independent, and modifiable risk factor for coronary heart disease and outline necessary clinical and public health interventions.
Expert consensus review evaluating extensive epidemiological, pathophysiological, and clinical evidence connecting excess adiposity with cardiovascular disease.
Assessment of obesity's direct pathogenic effects on myocardial function as well as its indirect contributions through intermediate risk factors.
Reclassifies obesity from a contributing factor to a major, direct risk factor for coronary heart disease and overall cardiovascular morbidity.
Identifies that excess adiposity significantly worsens atherogenic dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and systemic hypertension.