Obesity is associated with fatal coronary heart disease independently of traditional risk factors and deprivation

BackgroundThe effect of body mass index (BMI) on coronary heart disease (CHD) risk is attenuated when mediators of this risk (such as diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidaemia) are accounted for. However, there is now evidence of a differential effect of risk factors on fatal and non-fatal CHD even...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Heart (British Cardiac Society) 2011-04, Vol.97 (7), p.564-568
Hauptverfasser:	Logue, Jennifer, Murray, Heather M, Welsh, Paul, Shepherd, James, Packard, Chris, Macfarlane, Peter, Cobbe, Stuart, Ford, Ian, Sattar, Naveed
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Biological and medical sciences Body Mass Index Cardiology. Vascular system Cardiovascular disease coronary artery disease (CAD) coronary disease Coronary Disease - etiology Coronary Disease - mortality Coronary heart disease Follow-Up Studies Health risk assessment Heart Humans Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors - therapeutic use Hypercholesterolemia - complications Hypercholesterolemia - drug therapy Male Medical sciences Metabolic diseases Middle Aged Mortality Obesity Obesity - complications Obesity - mortality Poverty Pravastatin - therapeutic use Risk Factors Scotland - epidemiology Studies
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