Prevalence of Cardiovascular‐Kidney‐Metabolic Conditions Across Body Mass Index Categories: The Distinct Burden of Severe (Class <scp>III</scp> ) Obesity
Karen Chung and Brian Lian are employees of Viking Therapeutics, Inc. Andrew Epstein is an employee of, at the time of the study Yilmaz Akkas was an employee of, and Saif Rathore is an adviser to Medicus Economics, which received funding from Viking Therapeutics. This study analysed data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which is publicly available from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The peer review history for this article is available at https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway/wos/peer-review/10.1111/dom.70628.
Authors
- Andrew J. Epstein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5078-6564)
- Karen Chung (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4170-8390)
- Saif S. Rathore
- Yilmaz Akkas
- Brian Lian
Institutions
- Kankakee Community College (US)
- Viking Therapeutics (United States) (US)
- Curry College (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism
- Published
- 2026-03-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/dom.70628
- Primary Topic
- Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00