Objective: To assess relationship of obesity with occurrence of coronary artery disease
(CAD) in Iranian patients.
Methods: The CAD risk associated with obesity (body mass index 25.0) was assessed in
a case-control study of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), which compared 200 AMI
patients aged 40–79 years with 200 community controls, matched by age, gender and
other risk factors.
Results: The prevalence of current overweight was much more frequent in cases
compared with controls. Even after controlling for other CAD risk factors, obesity was
associated with a 2-fold increase in the risk of AMI.
Conclusion: Current overweight is a CAD risk and was associated with a 2-fold increase
in the risk of AMI. (Rawal Med J 2007;33:25-28).
Key words: Myocardial infarction, obesity; overweight, coronary artery disease.
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