Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST R0xOivmo. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Obesity, android fat distribution, and other anthropometric measures have been associated with coronary heart disease in long-term prospective studies. However, fluctuations in weight due to age-related hormonal changes and changes in lifestyle practices may bias relative risk estimates over a long follow-up period. The authors prospectively studied the association between body mass index (BMI) (kg/m2), waist-to-hip ratio, and height as independent predictors of incident coronary heart disease in a 3-year prospective study among 29,122 US men aged 40-75 years in 1986. The authors documented 420 incident coronary events during the follow-up period. Among men younger than 65, after adjusting for other coronary risk factors, the relative risk was 1.72 (95% confidence interval (Cl) 1.102.69) for men with BMI of 25-28.9,2.61 (95% Cl 1.54-4.42) for BMI of 29.0-32.9, and 3.44 (95% Cl 1.67-7.09) for obese men with BMI 33 compared with lean men with BMI
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