Prevalence and impact of metabolically healthy obesity on cardiovascular outcomes in postmenopausal women and disparities: An age-matched study

Figure 1 Study population selection flowchart. Study population selection flow chart depicting the flow of inclusion of patients in our study. The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project’s National Inpatient Sample 2020 was utilized to select women of post-menopausal age (age ≥ 55 years), and patients hospitalized with diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia are excluded. Then we identified metabolically healthy postmenopausal women with and without obesity, forming two groups: One composed of metabolically healthy postmenopausal women with obesity and one composed of those without obesity. Propensity score matching was done to create age-matched cohorts, before multivariable logistic regression analysis. HCUP: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project; MHO: Metabolically healthy obesity.