Cardiologists and abdominal obesity: lost in translation?

摘要

Studies have identified major risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Some axe non-modifiable but many reflect life- style habits, such as a deleterious diet and lack of physical activity/exercise, which lead to overweight and obesity. Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States as well as much of the industrialised world, and is increasing in the developing world. In the most widely used classification of body mass, body weight is expressed as a body mass index (BMI). In adults, obesity is defined as a BMI >=30 kg/m~2 which is further subdivided into grades (box 1). Obesity has also been defined in children.