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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

VOL. 66, NO. 7, 2015

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Letters Incidence of Metabolic Risk Factors Among Healthy Obese Adults

the metabolic risk factors responsible for this transi-

20-Year Follow-Up

to 24.9 kg/m 2), overweight (BMI 25 to 29 kg/m2 ), or

tion, as well as the timing of their onset. Repeat clinical data were drawn from the Whitehall II cohort study of British adults. We grouped participants as normal-weight (body mass index [BMI] 18.5 obese (BMI $30 kg/m 2), and as healthy (2) if they were free of any the following characteristics: high-density

There is growing evidence that obese adults without

lipoprotein cholesterol 1,000 patients with ARVD/C, only 4 of 416 probands were present in patients