CENTRAL OBESITY AND CORONARY HEART DISEASE IN MEN
- 1 April 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in The Lancet
- Vol. 329 (8537), 821-824
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(87)91605-9
Abstract
The relation between central body fat distribution, determined by measurement of subscapular skinfold thickness (SSF), and the development of definite coronary heart disease (CHD) was examined after 12 years of follow-up in a cohort of 7692 men who participated in the Honolulu Heart Program. The risk of incident coronary events was directly related to SSF. Compared with men in the lowest tertile of SSF, those in the middle tertile experienced a 70% excess of definite CHD. For those in the highest tertile, the excess more than doubled. For a given level of body mass index (BMI), SSF remains a significant and independent predictor of definite CHD, even after adjustment for age, total cholesterol, glucose, triglycerides, hypertensive status, and cigarette smoking. In contrast, the independent effect of BMI was not significant after adjustment for SSF. Thus centrally obese individuals are at increased risk of CHD, independent of BMI.This publication has 26 references indexed in Scilit:
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