Association of Body Mass Index With Lifetime Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Compression of Morbidity

Prior studies have demonstrated lower all-cause mortality in individuals who are overweight compared with those with normal body mass index (BMI), but whether this may come at the cost of greater burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is unknown.To calculate lifetime risk estimates of incident CVD and subtypes of CVD and to estimate years lived with and without CVD by weight status.In this population-based study, we used pooled individual-level...