Impact of higher BMI on cardiometabolic risk: does height matter?

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Internal Medicine IV, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen 72076, Germany; Institute of Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Centre Munich, Tübingen, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany. Electronic address: norbert.stefan@med.uni-tuebingen.de.
• ² German Center for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany; Department of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany.
• ³ Institute of Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Centre Munich, Tübingen, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany.
• ⁴ Department of Internal Medicine IV, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen 72076, Germany; Institute of Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Centre Munich, Tübingen, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany.
• ⁵ German Center for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany; Department of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany; Institute of Nutritional Science, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.