Body Fat Mass and Risk of Cerebrovascular Lesions: The PRESENT (Prevention of Stroke and Dementia) Project

Im-Seok Koh, Yang-Ki Minn and Seung-Han Suk
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Im-Seok Koh: Department of Neurology, National medical center, Seoul 04564, Korea
Yang-Ki Minn: Department of Neurology, Kangnam Sacred Hospital, Hallym University, Seoul 07441, Korea
Seung-Han Suk: Department of Neurology, Wonkwang University, Sanbon Medical Center, Gunpo 15865, Korea

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 16, 1-8

Abstract: Obesity is known to increase the risk of stroke. It is unclear whether high absolute fat mass (FM) increases the risk of stroke independently. We studied the correlation between FM and silent brain infarction/white matter change (SI/WMC) using brain computed tomography. We selected subjects from the local government health promotion project. We randomly selected a target population that had never been diagnosed with stroke or dementia. FM was measured by bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA). We divided the subjects into three groups according to the FM (gender-specific tertiles [GTx]). Seven hundred and twenty-two subjects (321 men) between 50 and 75 years of age were recruited. The overall odds ratio (OR) of SI/WMC was 2.23 (95% confidence interval (CI), 1.34–3.71; p = 0.002) times higher in the 37th to 100th percentiles (GT 3 ) than in the first to 32nd percentiles (GT 1 ). When men and women were separated, the OR of GT 3 was 1.35 (CI, 0.62–2.94; p = 0.45) in men and 3.2 (CI, 1.60–6.40; p = 0.001) in women. The findings were not found to be statistically significant after adjusting for the well-known stroke risk factors. When the subjects were divided into a high FM (HFMG, GT 3 ) and low FM group (LFMG, GT 1 + GT 2 ), the HFMG showed an increased OR of SI/WMC in women. Similar results were seen after adjusted (overall: OR, 1.38; CI, 0.85–2.25, p = 0.198; men: OR, 0.93; CI, 0.422–2.051; p = 0.86; women: OR, 2.02; CI, 1.06–3.86; p = 0.03). The findings suggest that high FM may be an independent risk factor for ischemic stroke among adults free from stroke and dementia, especially in women.

Keywords: obesity; body mass index; ischemic stroke; risk factor; absolute fat mass (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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