Associations among Obesity Degree, Glycemic Status, and Risk of Heart Failure in 9,720,220 Korean Adults

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Diabetes Metab J. 2020;44(5):783-783

Publication date (electronic) : 2020 October 21

doi : https://doi.org/10.4093/dmj.2020.0245

Eun Jung Rhee ¹, Hyemi Kwon ¹, Se Eun Park ¹, Kyung Do Han ², Yong Gyu Park ², Yang Hyun Kim ³, Won Young Lee ¹

¹Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

²Department of Biostatistics, Biomedicine & Health Sciences, College of Medicine, The Catholic University, Seoul, Korea

³Department of Family Medicine, Korea University Anam Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Diabetes Metab J 2020;44:592-601. https://doi.org/10.4093/dmj.2019.0104

In this Article, Model 3 in Table 2 is unnecessarily added. It was deleted from the corrected Table as follows.

Table 2.

Risk for heart failure according to obesity degree

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Table 2.

Risk for heart failure according to obesity degree

Variable		No. of subjects	No. of event	Incidence rate, /1,000 person-years	Model 1	P value	Model 2	P value
BMI levels, kg/m²		-
	<18.5	372,523	3,855	1.67	1.47 (1.42–1.52)	<0.001	1.39 (1.35–1.44)	<0.001
	18.5–22.9	3,848,812	28,968	1.20	1 (reference)	-	1 (reference)	-
	23.0–24.9	2,406,196	20,934	1.38	1.60 (1.04–1.08)	<0.001	0.91 (0.90–0.93)	<0.001
	25.0–29.9	2,762,426	28,319	1.63	1.20 (1.20–1.22)	<0.001	0.93 (0.92–0.95)	<0.001
	≥30	330,263	4,249	2.05	1.62 (1.57–1.68)	<0.001	1.15 (1.11–1.18)	<0.001
	P for trend				<0.001		<0.001
WC levels, men/women
	<80.0/75.0 cm	3,611,228	19,159	0.84	0.72 (0.71–0.74)	<0.001	0.91 (0.89–0.93)	<0.001
	80.0/75.0–84.9/79.9 cm	2,314,707	18,018	1.24	0.85 (0.83–0.87)	<0.001	0.94 (0.92–0.96)	<0.001
	85.0/80.0–89.9/84.9 cm	1,918,487	19,988	1.66	1 (reference)	-	1 (reference)	-
	90.0/85.0–94.9/89.9 cm	1,117,820	14,766	2.10	1.16 (1.14–1.19)	<0.001	1.04 (1.02–1.07)	<0.001
	95.0/90.0–99.9/94.9 cm	493,564	8,526	2.75	1.33 (1.29–1.36)	<0.001	1.16 (1.13,1.19)	<0.001
	≥100.0/95.0 cm	264,414	5,868	3.55	2.00 (1.94–2.05)	<0.001	1.48 (1.43–1.52)	<0.001
	P for trend				<0.001		<0.001

Values are presented as hazard ratio (95% confidence interval). Model 1 adjusted for age and sex; Model 2 adjusted for age, sex, smoking, alcohol drinking, regular exercise, low income, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and chronic kidney disease.

BMI, body mass index; WC, waist circumference.