A Comparison between BMI and Conicity Index on Predicting Coronary Heart Disease

Obesity as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease: a 26-year follow-up of participants in the Framingham Heart Study.

Helen B. Hubert, M Feinleib, Patricia McNamara et al. · Circulation · 1983 · 4.3K citations · Full text

Medicine, Cardiology, Epidemiology +16

Body Weight and Mortality among Women

JoAnn E. Manson, Walter C. Willett, Meir J. Stampfer et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 1995 · 2K citations · Full text

Public Health, Nutrition, Epidemiology +9

Abdominal adipose tissue distribution, obesity, and risk of cardiovascular disease and death: 13 year follow up of participants in the study of men born in 1913.

B. Larsson, Kurt Svärdsudd, Lennart Welin et al. · BMJ · 1984 · 1.9K citations · Full text

Medicine, Cardiology, Health Sciences +17

A Prospective Study of Obesity and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Women

JoAnn E. Manson, Graham A. Colditz, Meir J. Stampfer et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 1990 · 1.4K citations

Medicine, Cardiology, Preventive Medicine +15

Body Size and Fat Distribution as Predictors of Coronary Heart Disease among Middle-aged and Older US Men

Eric B. Rimm, Meir J. Stampfer, Edward L. Giovannucci et al. · American Journal of Epidemiology · 1995 · 840 citations

Medicine, Preventive Medicine, Epidemiologic Methods +16