Obesity and cardiovascular disease: friend or foe?

Usefulness of Measuring Both Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference for the Estimation of Visceral Adiposity and Related Cardiometabolic Risk Profile (from the INSPIRE ME IAA Study)

(2015) Julie-Anne Nazare et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: Weight Loss Is Not the Only Target

(2015) Jean-Pierre Després   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Changing the Endpoints for Determining Effective Obesity Management

(2015) Robert Ross et al.   PROGRESS IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

Perivascular Adipose Tissue and Coronary Vascular Disease

(2014) Meredith Kohr Owen et al.   ARTERIOSCLEROSIS THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY

Modulation of adiponectin as a potential therapeutic strategy

(2014) Soo Lim et al.   ATHEROSCLEROSIS

Visceral adiposity and skeletal muscle mass are independently and synergistically associated with left ventricular structure and function: The Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study

(2014) Juri Park et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Impaired Fasting Glucose and Body Mass Index as Determinants of Mortality in ALLHAT: Is the Obesity Paradox Real?

(2014) Ravi V. Shah et al.   Journal of Clinical Hypertension

Is it Finally Time to Dispel the Concept of Metabolically-Healthy Obesity?∗

(2014) Rishi Puri   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Metabolically-Healthy Obesity and Coronary Artery Calcification

(2014) Yoosoo Chang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Pre-Morbid Body Mass Index and Mortality After Incident Heart Failure

(2014) Umair Khalid et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Perspective: Obesity is not a disease

(2014) D. L. Katz   NATURE

Healthy obese versus unhealthy lean: the obesity paradox

(2014) Carl J. Lavie et al.   Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Effect of Morbid Obesity on In-Hospital Mortality and Coronary Revascularization Outcomes After Acute Myocardial Infarction in the United States

(2013) Jashdeep Dhoot et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Are Metabolically Healthy Overweight and Obesity Benign Conditions?

(2013) Caroline K. Kramer et al.   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Chemerin Connects Fat to Arterial Contraction

(2013) Stephanie W. Watts et al.   ARTERIOSCLEROSIS THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY

Epicardial Adipose Tissue Volume and Adipocytokine Imbalance Are Strongly Linked to Human Coronary Atherosclerosis

(2013) Michio Shimabukuro et al.   ARTERIOSCLEROSIS THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY

Perivascular adipose tissue in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease

(2013) Hae-Young Lee et al.   ATHEROSCLEROSIS

Relation of Regional Fat Distribution to Left Ventricular Structure and Function

(2013) Ian J. Neeland et al.   Circulation-Cardiovascular Imaging

Metabolically Healthy Obesity and Risk of Mortality: Does the definition of metabolic health matter?

(2013) G.-M. Hinnouho et al.   DIABETES CARE

Improvement in coronary circulatory function in morbidly obese individuals after gastric bypass-induced weight loss: relation to alterations in endocannabinoids and adipocytokines

(2013) Alessandra Quercioli et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Combined effect of obesity and cardio-metabolic abnormality on the risk of cardiovascular disease: A meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies

(2013) Jingyao Fan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Association of All-Cause Mortality With Overweight and Obesity Using Standard Body Mass Index Categories

(2013) Katherine M. Flegal et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Correlation and Discrepancies Between Obesity by Body Mass Index and Body Fat in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease

(2013) Alban De Schutter et al.   Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention

In-Hospital Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions in Extremely Obese and Normal-Weight Patients

(2013) Saeed Payvar et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

New insights into the true nature of the obesity paradox and the lower cardiovascular risk

(2013) Steven G. Chrysant et al.   Journal of the American Society of Hypertension

Impact of Cardiorespiratory Fitness on the Obesity Paradox in Patients With Heart Failure

(2013) Carl J. Lavie et al.   MAYO CLINIC PROCEEDINGS

Overweight and obese cardiac patients have better prognosis despite reporting worse perceived health and more conventional risk factors

(2013) Mark Hamer et al.   PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Contribution of Cardiorespiratory Fitness to the Obesity Paradox

(2013) Paul A. McAuley et al.   PROGRESS IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

Fitness vs. Fatness on All-Cause Mortality: A Meta-Analysis

(2013) Vaughn W. Barry et al.   PROGRESS IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

Overview of Epidemiology and Contribution of Obesity to Cardiovascular Disease

(2013) Marjorie Bastien et al.   PROGRESS IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

Body Fat Distribution and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

(2012) Jean-Pierre Després   CIRCULATION

The intriguing metabolically healthy but obese phenotype: cardiovascular prognosis and role of fitness

(2012) Francisco B. Ortega et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Obesity phenotype and incident hypertension

(2012) Seung Ku Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION

Body Composition and Survival in Stable Coronary Heart Disease

(2012) Carl J. Lavie et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

The Obesity Paradox, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, and Coronary Heart Disease

(2012) Paul A. McAuley et al.   MAYO CLINIC PROCEEDINGS

The role of the endocannabinoid system in skeletal muscle and metabolic adaptations to exercise: potential implications for the treatment of obesity

(2012) E. Heyman et al.   Obesity Reviews

Coronary Vasomotor Control in Obesity and Morbid Obesity

(2012) Alessandra Quercioli et al.   JACC-Cardiovascular Imaging

A Detailed Cardiovascular Characterization of Obesity Without the Metabolic Syndrome

(2011) Lars Lind et al.   ARTERIOSCLEROSIS THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY

Burden of subclinical cardiovascular disease in “metabolically benign” and “at-risk” overweight and obese women: The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN)

(2011) Unab I. Khan et al.   ATHEROSCLEROSIS

Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Classification of Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Mortality

(2011) Sachin Gupta et al.   CIRCULATION

Myocardial, Perivascular, and Epicardial Fat

(2011) P. Iozzo   DIABETES CARE

The obesity paradox in heart failure: Is etiology a key factor?

(2011) Elisabet Zamora et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Obesity phenotype and cardiovascular changes

(2011) Juri Park et al.   JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION

Excess Visceral Adipose Tissue/Ectopic Fat

(2011) Jean-Pierre Després   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Impact of Body Weight and Extreme Obesity on the Presentation, Treatment, and In-Hospital Outcomes of 50,149 Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

(2011) Sandeep R. Das et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Central Obesity and Survival in Subjects With Coronary Artery Disease

(2011) Thais Coutinho et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

National, regional, and global trends in body-mass index since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 960 country-years and 9·1 million participants

(2011) Mariel M Finucane et al.   LANCET

Association between Body-Mass Index and Risk of Death in More Than 1 Million Asians

(2011) Wei Zheng et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Epicardial Perivascular Adipose-Derived Leptin Exacerbates Coronary Endothelial Dysfunction in Metabolic Syndrome via a Protein Kinase C-β Pathway

(2010) Gregory A. Payne et al.   ARTERIOSCLEROSIS THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY

Measures of overweight and obesity and risk of cardiovascular disease: a population-based study

(2010) Thomas S.G. Sehested et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR PREVENTION & REHABILITATION

Metabolically healthy obesity: different prevalences using different criteria

(2010) S Velho et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Pericardial Fat Is Independently Associated With Human Atrial Fibrillation

(2010) M. Obadah Al Chekakie et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Ectopic fat and cardiovascular disease: What is the link?

(2010) A. Gastaldelli et al.   NUTRITION METABOLISM AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

The Impact of Obesity on the Left Ventricle

(2010) Evrim B. Turkbey et al.   JACC-Cardiovascular Imaging

Influence of Etiology of Heart Failure on the Obesity Paradox

(2009) Ross Arena et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Local Inflammation and Hypoxia Abolish the Protective Anticontractile Properties of Perivascular Fat in Obese Patients

(2009) Adam S. Greenstein et al.   CIRCULATION

Impact of Body Mass Index and the Metabolic Syndrome on the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Death in Middle-Aged Men

(2009) Johan Ärnlöv et al.   CIRCULATION

Abdominal Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue: A Protective Fat Depot?

(2009) S. A. Porter et al.   DIABETES CARE

Cardiorespiratory Fitness as a Quantitative Predictor of All-Cause Mortality and Cardiovascular Events in Healthy Men and Women

(2009) Satoru Kodama   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Body mass index and mortality in heart failure: A meta-analysis

(2008) Antigone Oreopoulos et al.   AMERICAN HEART JOURNAL

Identification and Characterization of Metabolically Benign Obesity in Humans

(2008) Norbert Stefan   ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

The Obese Without Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Clustering and the Normal Weight With Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Clustering

(2008) Rachel P. Wildman   ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Pericardial Fat, Visceral Abdominal Fat, Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors, and Vascular Calcification in a Community-Based Sample

(2008) Guido A. Rosito et al.   CIRCULATION

Leptin and Cardiovascular Disease

(2008) Kwang Kon Koh et al.   CIRCULATION

Metabolically healthy but obese women: effect of an energy-restricted diet

(2008) A. D. Karelis et al.   DIABETOLOGIA

Changes in plasma endocannabinoid levels in viscerally obese men following a 1 year lifestyle modification programme and waist circumference reduction: associations with changes in metabolic risk factors

(2008) V. Di Marzo et al.   DIABETOLOGIA

High Adiponectin Concentrations Are Associated with the Metabolically Healthy Obese Phenotype

(2008) Carlos A. Aguilar-Salinas et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

Measures of Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk Among Men and Women

(2008) Rebecca P. Gelber et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY