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ArticleFrontiers in nutrition2026

Midlife BMI and A Body Shape Index in relation to mortality and coronary heart disease events in a nationwide cohort.

Itamar Shafran, Nir Y Krakauer, Jesse C Krakauer, Gali Cohen, Yariv Gerber

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Article in Frontiers in nutrition, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Itamar ShafranDepartment of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Nir Y KrakauerDepartment of Civil Engineering, City College of New York, New York, NY, United States.
Jesse C KrakauerDepartment of Endocrinology, Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital, Royal Oak, MI, United States.
Gali CohenDepartment of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Yariv GerberDepartment of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Abstract

Background: Obesity is a known cardiovascular risk factor. A Body Shape Index (ABSI) is a waist circumference (WC)-based measure of abdominal obesity, independent of Body Mass Index (BMI). We examined the independent and joint associations of ABSI and BMI with long-term mortality and coronary heart disease (CHD) events among initially young to middle-aged adults. Methods: Participants ( Results: The baseline mean [SD] age was 43 [11] years, and 50% were women. Negligible correlation was observed between BMI and ABSI ( Conclusion: ABSI demonstrated stronger associations with mortality and CHD events than BMI and provided complementary prognostic information by identifying high-risk individuals in addition to BMI.

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abdominal obesityA Body Shape IndexBody Mass Indexcentral obesitycohort studycoronary heart diseaseepidemiologymortality

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PMCPMC13574695

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