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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on August 2, 2007
European Heart Journal 2007 28(17):2047-2048; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm321
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© The European Society of Cardiology 2007. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Adiposity and cardiovascular disease: are we using the right definition of obesity?

Paul Poirier

Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie, Laval Hospital, 2725 Ste-Foy, Québec, Canada G1V 4G5

Corresponding author. Tel: +1 418 656 4767; fax: +1 418 656 4562. E-mail address: Paul.Poirier@crhl.ulaval.ca

This editorial refers to ‘Diagnostic performance of body mass index to detect obesity in patients with coronary artery disease’ by A. Romero-Corral et al., on page 2087

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Obesity is associated with a wide variety of co-morbidities, some of which may lead to disability or death.1 In general, the risk of developing co-morbidities rises as body mass index (BMI) increases. The most widely used classification of obesity is expressed in terms of BMI, where individuals whose BMI is < 18.5 kg/m2 are considered as underweight whereas those whose BMI ranges from 18.5 to 24.9 kg/m2 are classified as having normal or acceptable weight. Those whose BMI ranges from 25 to 29.9 kg/m2 are commonly referred to as overweight. Obesity is said to be present when BMI is ≥ 30 kg/m2. There are three grades of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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