Heart 2009;95:1033-1035
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Cardiologists and abdominal obesity: lost in translation?
Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie, Laval Hospital, Ste-Foy, Québec, Canada
Dr P Poirier, Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, 2725 Chemin Sainte-Foy, Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada G1V 4G5; Paul.Poirier@crhl.ulaval.ca
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Studies have identified major risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Some are non-modifiable but many reflect lifestyle habits, such as a deleterious diet and lack of physical activity/exercise, which lead to overweight and obesity.1 2 Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States as well as much of the industrialised world, and is increasing in the developing world.3–6 In the most widely used classification of body mass, body weight is expressed as a body mass index (BMI).3 In adults, obesity is defined as a BMI 
30 kg/m2 which is further subdivided into grades (box 1). Obesity has also been defined in children.4
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The most rapidly growing segment of the obese adult population is that comprising people who are severely obese. Between 1986 and 2000, people with a BMI >30, 40 and 50 kg/m2, are reported to have doubled, quadrupled and quintupled, respectively, in the United States.7 Data
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