Obesity paradox in post percutaneous intervention (PCI) outcomes among acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients is a well-known controversial finding. In studies that discussed the obesity paradox, at least had diabetes, hypertension, or hyperlipidemia. We studied relationship between and in-hospital post-PCI AMI with no hyperlipidemia (otherwise metabolically healthy). extracted data from Na...

OBJECTIVE Many studies find that excess weight is associated with better survival among individuals with cardiovascular disease (CVD). Investigations were carried out to see whether this "obesity paradox" can be explained by biases. METHODS The association between weight status and mortality in the US population ages 35 and above with CVD was investigated. Data were obtained from the National...

The obesity/food insecurity paradox has been present in the scientific literature for the past two decades 1, based mostly on evidence from the U.S. population. The potential mediators of such a paradox were recently reviewed. Overall, the review confirmed that food insecurity and obesity continue to be positively associated in women; new mediators were revealed (such as marital status, stresso...

has been considered as one of important risk factors for cardiovascular (CV) disease and mortality in the general population. As its harmful aspect has been too much emphasized, many physicians ignore other facets of overweight/obesity nowadays. A number of epi-demiologic studies from large samples of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) have reported that worse survi...

Obesity paradox has been described in various populations of coronary artery disease, mainly asymptomatic subjects. However, relationship between obesity and coronary artery calcification detected by cardiac CT in symptomatic patients has rarely been demonstrated. This study seeks to investigate whether the paradoxical relationship between obesity and coronary artery calcification exists in pat...

16Comments and Opinions Body Weight After Stroke Lessons From the Obesity Paradox Nadja Scherbakov, MD; Ulrich Dirnagl, MD; Wolfram Doehner, MD, PhD (Stroke. 2011;42:3646-3650.)

Obesity is an increasing burden globally. In the general population, the obese have an increased mortality risk. Regarding the critically ill, a growing body of literature supports the obesity paradox, the notion that obesity confers a protective effect in certain disease states. However, the paucity of methodologically sound trials prevents definitive interpretation and may obscure risks.

The number of obese older adults is on the rise, although we lack a proper definition of obesity in this age group. The ambiguity is primarily related to sarcopenia, the progressive loss of muscle and gain in fat that come with aging. Whether to treat and how to treat obesity in the elderly is controversial because of a paucity of established guidelines, but also because of the obesity paradox-...

OBJECTIVES We sought to determine whether an obesity paradox exists in the contemporary era of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and to explore potential clinical factors that might contribute. BACKGROUND Previous studies have suggested that overweight and obese patients might have better outcomes after PCI than patients with a normal or low body mass index (BMI); however this "obesity...