Topic: Central obesity

We aimed to investigate the association between WC and all-cause mortality of Parkinson disease (PD) using Korean National Health Insurance Service cohort data. Patients newly diagnosed PD were selected using the ICD-10 code (G20) and rare intractable disease registration code (V124). Anthropometric data including WC and body mass index (BMI) were obtained from the health screening data. We classified WC into following five categories: <70, 70–80, 80–90, 90–100, and ≥100 cm in males; <65, 65–75, 75–85, 85–95, ≥95 cm in females. The Cox proportional hazards model was used to assess all-ca