Tiffany M. Powell-Wiley

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarized the impact of obesity on the diagnosis, clinical management, and outcomes of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, heart failure, and arrhythmias, especially sudden cardiac death and atrial fibrillation.

TL;DR: Excess visceral fat and insulin resistance, but not general adiposity, were independently associated with incident prediabetes and type 2 diabetes mellitus in obese adults in a multiethnic, population-based cohort of obese adults.

TL;DR: Key steps in the development of a meta-analysis are reviewed and recommendations that will be useful for carrying out meta-analyses and for readers and journal editors, who must interpret the findings and gauge methodological quality are provided.

TL;DR: The duration of overall and abdominal obesity was associated with subclinical coronary heart disease and its progression through midlife independent of the degree of adiposity, and preventing or at least delaying the onset of obesity in young adulthood may lower the risk of developing atherosclerosis through middle age.

TL;DR: The tools and measures currently available to identify obesity and associated risks are either impractical, inaccurate, or both and the application of such cutoffs to a diverse population leads to misclassification of a large number of people.