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(Circulation. 2005;111:1871-1876.)
© 2005 American Heart Association, Inc.

Coronary Heart Disease

Interaction of Body Mass Index and Framingham Risk Score in Predicting Incident Coronary Disease in Families

Samia Mora, MD, MHS; Lisa R. Yanek, MPH; Taryn F. Moy, MS, RD; M. Daniele Fallin, PhD; Lewis C. Becker, MD; Diane M. Becker, MPH, ScD

From the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass (S.M.); The Johns Hopkins Sibling and Family Heart Study, Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Md (L.R.Y., T.F.M., L.C.B., D.M.B.); Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md (M.D.F.); and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Md (L.C.B.).

Correspondence to Samia Mora, MD, MHS, Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 900 Commonwealth Ave East, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02215. E-mail smora2{at}partners.org

Received November 4, 2004; revision received February 1, 2005; accepted February 22, 2005.

Background— Siblings of individuals with premature coronary heart disease (CHD) have a marked excess risk of CHD risk factors and premature CHD. The impact of body mass index (BMI) on incident CHD in these families and the extent to which it may be mediated by associated risk factors are unknown. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of high BMI on incident CHD in white and black families with premature CHD and to estimate the heritability of BMI.

Methods and Results— Risk factors, BMI, and Framingham Risk Score (FRS) were assessed at baseline and incident CHD was determined prospectively in 827 apparently healthy siblings of probands with premature CHD aged <60 years. During a mean follow-up of 8.7 years, 13.3% of siblings had incident CHD events. Event rates were higher in obese and overweight siblings than in those with normal weight (15.3% and 16.0% versus 8.1%, respectively; P=0.01). Multivariable Cox proportional hazards analyses demonstrated the independent prognostic value of BMI when added to FRS (P=0.02). A marked interaction between obesity (BMI 30 kg/m²) and high FRS (>20%) was seen for incident CHD (P for interaction=0.008), with an adjusted hazard ratio compared with low-FRS/normal-weight siblings of 14.63 (95% CI, 6.40 to 33.44; P<0.0001). BMI heritability (h²) was moderate for whites and low for blacks (52% and 29%, respectively).

Conclusions— High BMI contributed independently and significantly to incident CHD, beginning in the overweight range, and was most notable for obese siblings with a high-risk FRS.

Key Words: body mass index • risk factors • coronary disease

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