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Cross-sectional associations between body mass index, waist circumference, and multimorbidity:
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- Joint associations of lung function of both general and abdominal obesity with cardiometabolic multimorbidity: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Understanding the impact of urban exposure on obesity among middle and old-age migrants in India.PloS one · 2025Article
- Patterns of multimorbidity across obesity severity and fat distribution in Anhui, China: a community-based study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background: This study aimed (1) To investigate the association between the Body Mass Index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) with multimorbidity (MM), and (2) To identify patterns of MM and investigate the relationship between BMI and WC with specific combinations of MM (patterns of MM). Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 2,698 participants of the fourth phase of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health ( Results: Of the total number of participants, 39.5% were overweight and 30.0% were obese; 89.0% ( Conclusions: The results showed that an increase of both BMI and WC was associated with a higher number of morbidities and with patterns of cardiometabolic and osteoarticular diseases.
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