Overweight, obesity, and risk of cardiometabolic multimorbidity: pooled analysis of individual-level data for 120 813 adults from 16 cohort studies from the USA and Europe

• Main Authors: Mika Kivimäki, ProfPhD (Author), Eeva Kuosma, MSc (Author), Jane E Ferrie, PhD (Author), Ritva Luukkonen, PhD (Author), Solja T Nyberg, MSc (Author), Lars Alfredsson, ProfPhD (Author), G David Batty, PhD (Author), Eric J Brunner, PhD (Author), Eleonor Fransson, PhD (Author), Marcel Goldberg, ProfMD (Author), Anders Knutsson, ProfPhD (Author), Markku Koskenvuo, MD (Author), Maria Nordin, PhD (Author), Tuula Oksanen, PhD (Author), Jaana Pentti, MSc (Author), Reiner Rugulies, ProfPhD (Author), Martin J Shipley, MSc (Author), Archana Singh-Manoux, PhD (Author), Andrew Steptoe, ProfPhD (Author), Sakari B Suominen, MD (Author), Töres Theorell, ProfMD (Author), Jussi Vahtera, ProfMD (Author), Marianna Virtanen, ProfPhD (Author), Peter Westerholm, ProfMD (Author), Hugo Westerlund, ProfPhD (Author), Marie Zins, MD (Author), Mark Hamer, ProfPhD (Author), Joshua A Bell, PhD (Author), Adam G Tabak, PhD (Author), Markus Jokela, PhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Background: Although overweight and obesity have been studied in relation to individual cardiometabolic diseases, their association with risk of cardiometabolic multimorbidity is poorly understood. Here we aimed to establish the risk of incident cardiometabolic multimorbidity (ie, at least...