The obesity paradox and incident cardiovascular disease: A population-based study.

Prior work suggests that obesity may confer a survival advantage among persons with cardiovascular disease (CVD). This obesity "paradox" is frequently studied in the context of prevalent disease, a stage in the disease process when confounding from illness-related weight loss and selective...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Virginia W Chang, Kenneth M Langa, David Weir, Theodore J Iwashyna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5720539?pdf=render