Observational studyCirculation. Heart failure2021
Metabolically Healthy/Unhealthy Overweight/Obesity Associations With Incident Heart Failure in Postmenopausal Women: The Women's Health Initiative.
Observational study in Circulation. Heart failure, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Risk of Heart Failure between Different Metabolic States of Health and Weight: A Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
- Obesity: current developments in mechanisms, diagnosis, classification and the evolution of personalized management.Medical review (2021) · 2026Review
- Metabolically "healthy" obesity in postmenopausal women: Unmasking the cardiovascular risk.World journal of cardiology · 2025Article
- Prevalence and impact of metabolically healthy obesity on cardiovascular outcomes in postmenopausal women and disparities: An age-matched study.World journal of cardiology · 2025Article
- The Impact of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among UK Women: An Obesity-Adjusted Analysis.ASIDE internal medicine · 2025Article
- Association between physical activity and visceral adiposity index (VAI) in U.S. population with overweight or obesity: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Update on Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk: From Pathophysiology to Clinical Management.Nutrients · 2024Review
- New Mechanisms to Prevent Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction Using Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonism (GLP-1 RA) in Metabolic Syndrome and in Type 2 Diabetes: A Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Obesity phenotypes and cardiovascular risk: From pathophysiology to clinical management.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2023Review
- Diabetes Mellitus and Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: Role of Obesity.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Review
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Abstract
backgroundObesity is associated with an increased risk of heart failure (HF); however, how metabolic weight groups relate to HF risk, especially in postmenopausal women, has not been demonstrated.
methodsWe included 19 412 postmenopausal women ages 50 to 79 without cardiovascular disease from the Women's Health Initiative. Normal weight was defined as a body mass index ≥18.5 and <25 kg/m
resultsAmong our sample, 455 (2.34%) participants experienced HF hospitalizations over a mean follow-up time of 11.3±1.1 years. Compared with metabolically healthy normal weight individuals, HF risk was greater in metabolically unhealthy normal weight (HR, 1.66 [95% CI, 1.01-2.72],
conclusionsMetabolically unhealthy overweight/obese and metabolically unhealthy normal weight are associated with an increased risk of HF in postmenopausal women.
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