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Weight gain increases the risk for atherosclerosis regardless of cardiovascular events status or overweight/obese at baseline.
Practitioners should be aware that weight gain is a significant risk factor for atherosclerosis.
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Weight gain, however, would increase risk for atherosclerosis regardless of cardiovascular events status, or overweight/obese at baseline.
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The study is based on a prospective cohort analysis.
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Weight Change and Risk of Atherosclerosis Measured by Carotid Intima-Media Thickness (cIMT) from a Prospective Cohort—Analysis of the First-Wave Follow-up Data of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)
Jian Liu et al. · Preprints.org · 2023
DOI 10.20944/preprints202309.1343.v1
cohort · n=20700Cited 2×
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