Obesity is linked
to traditional cardiovascular risk factors like, metabolic syndrome,
hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes, dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus,
sleep apnoea syndrome, reduced insulin sensitivity, enhanced free fatty acid
turnover, increased basal sympathetic tone, a hypercoagulable
state, systemic inflammation and suspected to incur increased morbidity and
mortality.
Body Mass Index
(BMI) is a patient's weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters.
BMI is to define underweight, normal weight, overweight, and various classes of
obesity.
Hansel and
colleagues report a study to explore the relation between BMI and
cardiovascular (CV) disease, and the influence of optimal medical therapy (OMT)
on this relationship.
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