Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 2021; 116(5): 887-888
Obesity, Body Fat Content and Cardiovascular Outcome: Beyond Body Mass Index
This Short Editorial is referred by the Research article "The Direct Effect of Body Mass Index on Cardiovascular Outcomes among Participants Without Central Obesity by Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation".
Obesity pandemic has been associated with an increment of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Diagnosis of CVD is delivered ten years early in obese people.
Although body mass index (BMI) has been widely used as the main index of obesity, it is not an accurate predictor of cardiovascular disease. There are other ways to measure obesity, varying from a simple waist circumference (WC) measurement to more sophisticated methods, like bioelectrical impedance and dual energy X-ray densitometry.
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Obesity, Body Fat Content and Cardiovascular Outcome: Beyond Body Mass Index
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