Studies from National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital in the Area of Abdominal Obesity Reported (Poor cardiovascular outcomes of underweight abdominal obesity in the entire population of newly diagnosed heart failure): Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases and Conditions – Abdominal Obesity

2025 OCT 06 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity Daily News -- Fresh data on Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases and Conditions - Abdominal Obesity are presented in a new report. According to news reporting from Goyang, South Korea, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Body mass index (BMI) has been widely used as a simple tool for predicting cardiovascular risk. Here we aimed to analyse the distribution and cardiovascular outcomes according to BMI and waist circumference (WC) of the newly diagnosed heart failure (HF) patients in the entire population of the Republic of Korea for 10 years.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, “A total of 999 127 patients newly diagnosed with HF between 2012 and 2021 among the entire population were included. The epidemiologic data of each subgroup according to BMI and WC were analysed, and cardiovascular outcomes were evaluated. Over the decade from 2012 to 2021, the obese group accounted for 47.1% of the newly diagnosed HF population. Kaplan-Meier curve and hazard ratio of cardiovascular events in each subgroup revealed significantly increased rates of hospitalization, death from all causes, cardiovascular death, acute myocardial infarction, atrial fibrillation and composite cardiac events in the underweight group compared with other groups (P value < 0.05). The subgroups of abdominal obesity in normal, overweight and obese patients revealed significantly high hazard ratio in almost all cardiovascular events (P value < 0.05). Conversely, the overweight and obese groups without abdominal obesity showed the best cardiovascular outcomes. Increased cardiovascular risk was shown in groups with abdominal obesity even at the same BMI. The cardiovascular prognosis was significantly worse in the underweight group than in the obese group, especially in the underweight abdominal obesity group. Even in the same BMI group, the prognosis is worse in the group with abdominal obesity.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “For a more accurate cardiovascular prognosis analysis, it is necessary to use WC along with BMI.”

For more information on this research see: Poor cardiovascular outcomes of underweight abdominal obesity in the entire population of newly diagnosed heart failure. ESC Heart Failure, 2025. ESC Heart Failure can be contacted at: Wiley Periodicals, Inc, One Montgomery St, Suite 1200, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Sungyoun Chun, Research Institute, National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, Goyang, South Korea. Additional authors for this research include Joongmin Kim, Jong-Kwan Park, Hancheol Lee, Ji-Yong Jang, Hyeongsoo Kim, Geunhee Park, Seung-Jin Oh and Se-Jung Yoon.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.15413. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Publisher contact information for the journal ESC Heart Failure is: Wiley Periodicals, Inc, One Montgomery St, Suite 1200, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA.

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