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Healthy obesity.

Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care - 1 Jul 2009

Wildman Rachel P

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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To introduce the healthy obese phenotype, characterized by favorable cardiometabolic risk factors despite excess adipose tissue. The epidemiology of the healthy obese phenotype is presented, including associated risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), and potential biologic mechanisms which may give rise to the phenotype are discussed. RECENT FINDINGS: Although it appears that approximately 30%...

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PMID: 19474713
DOI: 10.1097/MCO.0b013e32832c6db7

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