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This study aimed to compare the prognostic associations of body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and the body roundness index (BRI) across multiple cardiovascular and mortality outcomes in a large cohort of Korean adults using a nationwide database.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec002\">\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This retrospective cohort study analyzed 1,199,633 Korean adults (aged \u226555 years) from the National Health Insurance Service database. Prognostic association for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), all-cause mortality, and atrial fibrillation (AF) over a 10-year follow-up was assessed using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis and multivariable Cox proportional hazards models.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec003\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>No single index consistently outperformed the others; rather, association was outcome-specific. BRI demonstrated the highest discrimination for ASCVD (AUC: 0.553) compared to WC (0.540) and BMI (0.512; P\u2009&lt;\u20090.05 for all). Conversely, BMI showed the highest AUC for all-cause mortality (0.595), largely due to a significant inverse relationship in the underweight category. For incident AF, WC showed the highest AUC (0.567), followed by BRI (0.550) and BMI (0.527). 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