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Visceral abdominal fat accumulation predicts the conversion of metabolically healthy obese subjects to an unhealthy phenotype.
International journal of obesity (2005) - 1 Sept 2015
Hwang Y-C, Hayashi T, Fujimoto W Y, Kahn S E, Leonetti D L, McNeely M J, Boyko E J
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BACKGROUND: A proportion of obese subjects appear metabolically healthy (MHO) but little is known about the natural history of MHO and factors predicting its future conversion to metabolically unhealthy obese (MUO). OBJECTIVES: The aim was to determine prospectively the frequency of conversion of MHO to MUO and the clinical variables that independently predicted this conversion, with a particular focus on the...
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