Cardiovascular disease with obesity associated with more illness, death and medical costs than obesity alone

Adults at high cardiovascular risk and living with overweight or obesity experience a higher number of cardiovascular events (such as heart attack and stroke), are at greater risk of dying prematurely, and have considerably higher health care costs than those living with obesity without cardiovascular disease, according to a study in over 420,000 adults living in North-West London, being presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Dublin, Ireland (17–20 May).