Although general obesity may be as-sociated with an elevated risk of stroke, the association did not reach statistical significance after adjustment for confounding factors (adjusted OR: 1.60; 95% CI: 0.99, 2.59).
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Elevated Chinese visceral adiposity index increases the risk of stroke in Chinese patients with metabolic syndrome.
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Furthermore, we observed a significant trend towards increasing SBP, TG, and TC levels, as well as decreasing HDL-C levels with increasing CVAI, among the participants who developed MetS. 3.4 Association between CVAI at baseline and incident stroke during the 2-year follow-up of MetS patients There was a positive association between CVAI and the risk of incident stroke ( Figure 3A ).