ABDOMINAL ADIPOSE-TISSUE DISTRIBUTION, OBESITY, AND RISK OF CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE AND DEATH - 13 YEAR FOLLOW UP OF PARTICIPANTS IN THE STUDY OF MEN BORN IN 1913
ABDOMINAL ADIPOSE-TISSUE DISTRIBUTION, OBESITY, AND RISK OF CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE AND DEATH - 13 YEAR FOLLOW UP OF PARTICIPANTS IN THE STUDY OF MEN BORN IN 1913
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DOI:
10.1136/bmj.288.6428.1401
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
105.7
通讯作者:
TIBBLIN, G
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作者:
LARSSON, B;SVARDSUDD, K;TIBBLIN, G
In a prospective study of risk factors for ischemic heart disease, 792 54 yr old men selected by year of birth (1913) and residence in Gothenburg [Sweden] agreed to attend for questioning and a battery of anthropometric and other measurements in 1967. Thirteen years later these baseline findings were reviewed in relation to the numbers of men who had subsequently suffered a stroke, ischemic heart disease, or death from all causes. Neither quintiles nor deciles of initial indices of obesity (body mass index, sum of 3 skinfold thickness measurements, waist or hip circumference) showed a significant correlation with any of the 3 end points studied. Statistically significant associations were found between the waist to hip circumference ratio and the occurrence of stroke (P = 0.002) and ischemic heart disease (P = 0.04). When the confounding effect of body mass index or the sum of 3 skinfold thicknesses was accounted for, the waist to hip circumference ratio was significantly associated with all 3 end points. This ratio, however, was not an independent long-term predictor of these end points when smoking, systolic blood pressure and serum cholesterol concentration were taken into account. In middle aged men the distribution of fat deposits may be a better predictor of cardiovascular disease and death than the degree of adiposity.