ArticleJournal of lipid and atherosclerosis2026
Cardiovascular Risk Associated With General and Abdominal Obesity in Young Adults Without Traditional Risk Factors: A Korean Nationwide Cohort Study.
Article in Journal of lipid and atherosclerosis, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Objective: Body mass index (BMI) is widely used to classify obesity but does not adequately characterize central adiposity. Waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) is a simple anthropometric marker of central obesity that may detect cardiovascular risk not captured by BMI. This study examined whether WHtR provides prognostic information beyond BMI for cardiovascular risk stratification in young adults. Methods: We analyzed 1,743,968 adults aged 30-39 years who underwent health screening through the 2009 Korean National Health Insurance Service program. Participants were classified into four groups according to BMI and WHtR: BMI <25 kg/m Results: During a median follow-up of 14.2 years, 37,120 participants (2.12%) experienced the composite outcome. After multivariable adjustment, participants with normal BMI but elevated WHtR (Group 3) had an increased risk compared with Group 1 (aHR, 1.171; 95% CI, 1.118-1.226), with a slightly higher point estimate than Group 2. A similar pattern was observed for MI, whereas stroke risk was more strongly associated with elevated BMI. Conclusion: Elevated WHtR was associated with increased risk of MI and the composite outcome among young adults with normal BMI. WHtR may provide information complementary to BMI for early cardiovascular risk stratification.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.