Consequences of change in waist circumference on cardiometabolic risk factors over 9 years: Data from an Epidemiological Study on the Insulin Resistance Syndrome (DESIR).

O besity and abdominal adiposity have been shown in prospective studies to be risk factors for cardiovascular disease and particularly for diabetes (1–8). In cross-sectional studies, both are related with risk factors for these diseases (9–12), but there are few publications on the effects of changes in abdominal adiposity (13). We characterized men and women who gained and lost abdominal adiposity over 9 years and describe the incidence and the improvement in cardiometabolic risk factors according to changes in waist circumference.