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A metabolically healthy obese phenotype in hispanic participants in the IRAS family study.
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) - 1 Nov 2013
Samaropoulos Xanthia F, Hairston Kristen G, Anderson Andrea, Haffner Steven M, Lorenzo Carlos, Montez Maria, Norris Jill M, Scherzinger Ann L, Chen Yii-Der Ida, Wagenknecht Lynne E
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OBJECTIVE: Some obese individuals appear to be protected from developing type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease (CVD). This has led to characterizing body size phenotypes based on cardiometabolic risk factors specifically as obese or overweight, and as metabolically healthy (MH) or m...
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