'I'm just short for my weight, doctor': body weight and risk.

Abstract

In this issue, the SCORE (Systematic COronary Risk Evaluation) investigators explore relationships between body mass index (BMI), cardiovascular mortality and risk factors in pooled data from 12 European cohort studies of 186,308 subjects. This follows a number of other major studies on this topic. Some aspects of the intricate relationships between body weight and both total and cardiovascular mortality are becoming more clear. These studies include those from: