Association of metabolic health and obesity with coronary heart disease in adult cancer survivors
Kyuwoong Kim,
Edvige Di Giovanna,
Hyeyun Jung
et al.
Abstract:BackgroundThe metabolically healthy obese (MHO) phenotype is associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) in the general population. However, association of metabolic health and obesity phenotypes with CHD risk in adult cancer survivors remains unclear. We aimed to investigate the associations between different metabolic health and obesity phenotypes with incident CHD in adult cancer survivors.MethodsWe used National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) to identify a cohort of 173,951 adult can… Show more
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