Global Trend in Overweight and Obesity and Its Association With Cardiovascular Disease Incidence

Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

(2014) Marie Ng et al.   LANCET

Body mass index and incident coronary heart disease in women: a population-based prospective study

(2013) Dexter Canoy et al.   BMC Medicine

Epidemiology of Hypertension in Japan

(2013) Katsuyuki Miura et al.   CIRCULATION JOURNAL

Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Asian Countries

(2013) Ho N. Nguyen et al.   CIRCULATION JOURNAL

Trends in the Incidence and Survival of Intracerebral Hemorrhage by its Location in a Japanese Community

(2013) Seiji Gotoh et al.   CIRCULATION JOURNAL

Body mass index and incident hospitalisation for cardiovascular disease in 158 546 participants from the 45 and Up Study

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Metabolic mediators of the effects of body-mass index, overweight, and obesity on coronary heart disease and stroke: a pooled analysis of 97 prospective cohorts with 1·8 million participants

(2013)   LANCET

Measures of Adiposity and Risk of Stroke in China: A Result from the Kailuan Study

(2013) Anxin Wang et al.   PLoS One

Myocardial Infarction and Ischemic Heart Disease in Overweight and Obesity With and Without Metabolic Syndrome

(2013) Mette Thomsen et al.   JAMA Internal Medicine

Prospective Study on Waist Circumference and Risk of All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality

(2012) Isao Saito et al.   CIRCULATION JOURNAL

Epidemiological Evidence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Metabolic Syndrome, and Cardiovascular Disease in Japan

(2012) Isao Saito   CIRCULATION JOURNAL

Adiposity has differing associations with incident coronary heart disease and mortality in the Scottish population: cross-sectional surveys with follow-up

(2012) J W Hotchkiss et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

Body Mass Index and Risk of Total and Type-Specific Stroke in Chinese Adults: Results from a Longitudinal Study in China

(2012) Chunxiu Wang et al.   International Journal of Stroke

Lifestyle and Cardiovascular Disease in Japan

(2011) Hiroyasu Iso   Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis

Body Mass Index and Risk of Stroke and Myocardial Infarction in a Relatively Lean Population

(2010) Hiroshi Yatsuya et al.  

Body mass index and stroke incidence in a Japanese community: the Hisayama study

(2010) Koji Yonemoto et al.   HYPERTENSION RESEARCH

Body mass index, weight change and risk of stroke and stroke subtypes: the Japan Public Health Center-based prospective (JPHC) study

(2010) I Saito et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

Body mass index, waist circumference, and risk of coronary heart disease: A prospective study among men and women

(2010) Alan J. Flint et al.   Obesity Research & Clinical Practice

Race- and Sex-Specific Associations of Obesity Measures With Ischemic Stroke Incidence in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study

(2010) Hiroshi Yatsuya et al.   STROKE

Body mass index and risk of stroke among Chinese men and women

(2009) Lydia A. Bazzano et al.   ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY

Anthropometric assessment of abdominal obesity and coronary heart disease risk in men: the PRIME study

(2009) E Gruson et al.   HEART

General and Abdominal Adiposity and Risk of Stroke in Chinese Women

(2009) Xianglan Zhang et al.   STROKE

The Joint Effects of Physical Activity and Body Mass Index on Coronary Heart Disease Risk in Women

(2008) Amy R. Weinstein et al.   ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

BMI and Stroke Risk in Korean Women

(2008) Ji Wan Park et al.   Obesity

Differences in Cardiovascular Disease Mortality Associated With Body Mass Between Black and White Persons

(2007) Jill E. Abell et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH