Obesity, Body Fat Content and Cardiovascular Outcome: Beyond Body Mass Index
Obesity pandemic has been associated with an increment of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Diagnosis of CVD is delivered ten years early in obese people.
Although body mass index (BMI) has been widely used as the main index of obesity, it is not an accurate predictor of cardiovascular disease. There are other ways to measure obesity, varying from a simple waist circumference (WC) measurement to more sophisticated methods, like bioelectrical impedance and dual energy X-ray densitometry.
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