Metabolically Healthy Obesity and Cardiovascular Events. A Nationwide Cohort Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grégoire Fauchier ◽  
Arnaud Bisson ◽  
Alexandre Bodin ◽  
Julien Herbert ◽  
Carl Semaan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
Cardiovascular Events ◽  
Metabolically Healthy Obesity ◽  
Metabolically Healthy

scholarly journals Are people with metabolically healthy obesity really healthy? A prospective cohort study of 381,363 UK Biobank participants

Diabetologia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ziyi Zhou ◽  
John Macpherson ◽  
Stuart R. Gray ◽  
Jason M. R. Gill ◽  
Paul Welsh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
Prospective Cohort Study ◽  
Prospective Cohort ◽  
Respiratory Diseases ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Incident Diabetes ◽  
Uk Biobank ◽  
Metabolically Healthy Obesity ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Metabolically Healthy

Abstract Aims/hypothesis People with obesity and a normal metabolic profile are sometimes referred to as having ‘metabolically healthy obesity’ (MHO). However, whether this group of individuals are actually ‘healthy’ is uncertain. This study aims to examine the associations of MHO with a wide range of obesity-related outcomes. Methods This is a population-based prospective cohort study of 381,363 UK Biobank participants with a median follow-up of 11.2 years. MHO was defined as having a BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2 and at least four of the six metabolically healthy criteria. Outcomes included incident diabetes and incident and fatal atherosclerotic CVD (ASCVD), heart failure (HF) and respiratory diseases. Results Compared with people who were not obese at baseline, those with MHO had higher incident HF (HR 1.60; 95% CI 1.45, 1.75) and respiratory disease (HR 1.20; 95% CI 1.16, 1.25) rates, but not higher ASCVD. The associations of MHO were generally weaker for fatal outcomes and only significant for all-cause (HR 1.12; 95% CI 1.04, 1.21) and HF mortality rates (HR 1.44; 95% CI 1.09, 1.89). However, when compared with people who were metabolically healthy without obesity, participants with MHO had higher rates of incident diabetes (HR 4.32; 95% CI 3.83, 4.89), ASCVD (HR 1.18; 95% CI 1.10, 1.27), HF (HR 1.76; 95% CI 1.61, 1.92), respiratory diseases (HR 1.28; 95% CI 1.24, 1.33) and all-cause mortality (HR 1.22; 95% CI 1.14, 1.31). The results with a 5 year landmark analysis were similar. Conclusions/interpretation Weight management should be recommended to all people with obesity, irrespective of their metabolic status, to lower risk of diabetes, ASCVD, HF and respiratory diseases. The term ‘MHO’ should be avoided as it is misleading and different strategies for risk stratification should be explored. Graphical abstract

scholarly journals Impact of metabolically healthy obesity on the risk of incident gastric cancer: a population-based cohort study

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshitaka Hashimoto ◽  
Masahide Hamaguchi ◽  
Akihiro Obora ◽  
Takao Kojima ◽  
Michiaki Fukui
Keyword(s):  
Gastric Cancer ◽  
Cohort Study ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Metabolically Healthy Obesity ◽  
Metabolically Healthy

scholarly journals Metabolically healthy obesity and the risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes: the Whitehall II cohort study

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (9) ◽  
pp. 551-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy-Marino Hinnouho ◽  
Sébastien Czernichow ◽  
Aline Dugravot ◽  
Hermann Nabi ◽  
Eric J. Brunner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Cohort Study ◽  
Metabolically Healthy Obesity ◽  
Metabolically Healthy

scholarly journals Association between metabolically healthy obesity/overweight and cardiovascular disease risk: A representative cohort study in Taiwan

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. e0246378
Author(s):  
Tzu-Lin Yeh ◽  
Hsin-Yin Hsu ◽  
Ming-Chieh Tsai ◽  
Le-Yin Hsu ◽  
Lee-Ching Hwang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Cohort Study ◽  
Cox Regression ◽  
Disease Risk ◽  
Cardiovascular Disease Risk ◽  
Normal Weight ◽  
Metabolically Healthy Obesity ◽  
Cox Regression Analysis ◽  
The Metabolic Syndrome ◽  
Metabolically Healthy

Objectives To investigate the relationship between metabolically healthy obesity and cardiovascular disease risk in Taiwanese individuals. Methods Taiwanese individuals were recruited from a nationwide, representative community-based prospective cohort study and classified according to body mass index as follows: normal weight (18.5–23.9 kilogram (kg)/meter(m)2) and obesity/overweight (≥24 kg/m2). Participants without diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia and who did not meet the metabolic syndrome without waist circumference criteria were considered metabolically healthy. The study end points were cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality. Multivariable adjusted hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals were obtained from a Cox regression analysis. Results Among 5 358 subjects (mean [standard deviation] age, 44.5 [15.3] years; women, 48.2%), 1 479 were metabolically healthy with normal weight and 491 were metabolically healthy with obesity. The prevalence of metabolically healthy obesity/overweight was 8.6% in the Taiwanese general population, which included individuals who were >20 years old, not pregnant, and did not have CVD (n = 5,719). In the median follow-up period of 13.7 years, 439 cardiovascular disease events occurred overall and 24 in the metabolically healthy obesity group. Compared with the reference group, the metabolically healthy obesity group had a significantly higher cardiovascular disease risk (adjusted hazard ratio: 1.74, 95% confidence interval: 1.02, 2.99). Conclusions Individuals with metabolically healthy obesity have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease and require aggressive body weight control for cardiovascular disease control.

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