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Body Fat Distribution and Cardiovascular Disease

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The association between obesity and cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been unclear, non-consistent and controversial. Recent developments have, however, apparently clarified these enigmatic conditions by including not only the total mass of body fat (obesity), but also the distribution of body fat. In epidemiological contexts the latter is conveniently measured as the waist/hip circumference ratio (WHR). This area of research has been reviewed repeatedly in its different sections in recent reviews. Due to the limited space available the reader will be referred to these reviews for detailed references.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA

    Antonio M. Gotto Jr.

  2. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

    Claude Lenfant

  3. Institute of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Rodolfo Paoletti  & Maurizio Soma (Assistant Editor) &  (Assistant Editor)

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Björntorp, P. (1992). Body Fat Distribution and Cardiovascular Disease. In: Gotto, A.M., Lenfant, C., Paoletti, R., Soma, M. (eds) Multiple Risk Factors in Cardiovascular Disease. Medical Science Symposia Series, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2700-4_23

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