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<p>Baseline characteristics of the study population.</p>

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<div> <p>Background and Aims</p><p>The global escalation of obesity necessitates precise tools for assessing diverse health risks.

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This study aimed to compare the prognostic associations of body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and the body roundness index (BRI) across multiple cardiovascular and mortality outcomes in a large cohort of Korean adults using a nationwide database.</p> <p>Methods</p><p>This retrospective cohort study analyzed 1,199,633 Korean adults (aged ≥55 years) from the National Health Insurance Service database.

Prognostic association for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), all-cause mortality, and atrial fibrillation (AF) over a 10-year follow-up was assessed using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis and multivariable Cox proportional hazards models.</p> <p>Results</p><p>No single index consistently outperformed the others; rather, association was outcome-specific. BRI demonstrated the highest discrimination for ASCVD (AUC: 0.553) compared to WC (0.540) and BMI (0.512; P < 0.05 for all).

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Conversely, BMI showed the highest AUC for all-cause mortality (0.595), largely due to a significant inverse relationship in the underweight category. For incident AF, WC showed the highest AUC (0.567), followed by BRI (0.550) and BMI (0.527). Restricted cubic spline analyses revealed non-linear (U-shaped or J-shaped) relationships for most outcomes.</p> <p>Conclusions</p><p>These findings indicate that each anthropometric index captures distinct biological aspects of adiposity, highlighting the need to consider the specific clinical outcome when interpreting obesity-related risk.</p></div>

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