Association between obesity categories with cardiovascular disease and its related risk factors in the MASHAD cohort study population.
Hamideh GhazizadehSeyed Mohammad Reza MirinezhadZahra AsadiSeyed Mostafa ParizadehReza Zare-FeyzabadiNiloofar ShabaniMarziyeh EidiEhsan Mosa FarkhanyHabibollah EsmailyAli Asghar MahmoudiMohsen MouhebatiMohammad Reza OladiMohadeseh RohbanPayam SharifanMehran YadegariFatemeh SaeidiGordon A FernsMajid Ghayour MobarhanPublished in: Journal of clinical laboratory analysis (2019)
Obesity strongly predicts several CVD risk factors. Following 6 years of follow-up, in individuals within increasing degrees of obesity, there was a corresponding significant increase in CVD events, rising to approximately a twofold higher risk of cardiovascular events in women compared with men.