Risk of incident cardiovascular disease according to the metabolic health and obesity states

Resumen:
While mortality from cardiovascular disease (CVD) has declined in recent decades, due to reductions in cholesterol levels, blood pressure, and smoking prevalence, these reductions have been offset by increasing rates of obesity and diabetes. Yet, some obese individuals may be at low risk of metabolic related complications, while other, normal-weight individuals are not "healthy." These researchers found that metabolically unhealthy individuals exhibited a greater risk of CVD than metabolically healthy individuals, whether obese or non-obese. Moreover, the researchers noted, the TyG index may be a useful candidate marker to define metabolic health status.