The Relationship between Overweight, Obesity and Cardiovascular ...

This report presents a review of the literature evaluating the association between overweight and obesity and cardiovascular disease (CVD), and whether the relationship is direct or indirect. In many instances the report examines the relationship between CVD or its metabolic risk factors and 'excess body weight', meaning all degrees of overweight taken as one group. This is because the literature does not always focus on traditional categories such as 'overweight' and 'obesity'.