Consejo Latinoamericano de Neurointensivismo (CLaNi), Cartagena, Colombia.

Obesity and Stroke: Does the Paradox Apply for Stroke?

Published in Neurointervention

Historically, obesity has been identified as one of the most important risk factors for developing cardiovascular diseases including stroke; however, a theory called "The Obesity Paradox" has been recently considered. The paradoxical theory is that obese or overweight patients (according to body mass index score) can have better outcomes compared t...