“Obesity paradox” in coronary artery disease

Table 1 Overview of literature addressing the “obesity paradox” in patients suffering from stable coronary artery disease undergoing coronary angiography and/or revascularization

Ref.	Year	n	Follow-up (mo)	Mortality	Myocardial infarction	Target vesselrevascularization	Renalinsufficiency	Vascularcomplications
Ellis et al[14]	1996	3571	12	+	-	-	+	+
Gurm et al[15]	2002	3634	60	+	NA	NA	NA	-
Gruberg et al[11]	2002	9633	12	+	-	-	+	-
Poston et al[19]	2004	1631	12	-	NA	-	NA	NA
Nikolsky et al[20]	2005	1301	12	-	-	-	NA	NA
Romero-Corral et al[18]	2006	250152	45	+	NA	NA	NA	NA
Oreopoulos et al[17]	2009	31021	46	+	NA	NA	NA	NA
Hastie et al[16]	2010	4880	60	+	NA	NA	NA	NA
Akin et al[21]	2012	5806	12	-	-	-	-	-

NA: Not available.

Table 2 Overview of literature addressing the “obesity paradox” in patients suffering from acute coronary syndrome including cardiogenic shock undergoing coronary revascularization

Ref.	Year	n	Follow-up (mo)	Mortality	Myocardial infarction	Target vessel revascularization	Renal insufficiency	Vascular complications
Kosuge et al[25]	2008	3076	Hospital	-	NA	NA	NA	NA
Kang et al[23]	2010	3824	12	+	-	-	NA	NA
Camprubi et al[24]	2012	824	Hospital	-	NA	NA	NA	NA
Bucholz et al[22]	2012	6359	12	+	NA	NA	NA	NA
Li et al[51]	2013	1429	12	-	-	-	NA	NA
Shehab et al[52]	2014	4379	1	-	-	-	NA	NA
Akin et al[26]	2015	890	12	-	-	-	-	-

NA: Not available.