Prognostic Value of Obesity on Both Overall Mortality and Cardiovascular Disease in the General Population

Obesity represents an important health problem and its association with cardiovascular risk factors is well-known. The aim of this work was to assess the correlation between obesity and mortality (both, all-cause mortality and the combined variable of all-cause mortality plus the appearance of a non-fatal first cardiovascular event) in a general population sample from the south-east of Spain.This prospective cohort study used stratified and...