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Overweight and obese patients have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and general mortality. It is not clear which obesity index should be used in the clinic. The objective is to compare the relationship between body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist-height ratio (WHR), and conicity index (Conicity-I) with 10-year Framingham cardiovascular risk (CVR). ⋯ The central obesity indexes (WC and WHR) discriminated better than the BMI the CVR. In women, all the indices had greater AUCs than in men, except for the I-Conicity.