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Invited commentary: limitations and usefulness of the metabolically healthy obesity phenotype.

American journal of epidemiology - 1 Nov 2015

Bradshaw Patrick T, Stevens June

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The fraction of the obese population who appear to be free of the metabolic abnormalities that usually accompany excess adiposity has garnered a great deal of attention recently. The so-called "metabolically healthy obesity" concept is thought to offer a refinement of the traditional obesity definitions that are based solely on anthropometry. The commentary by Rey-López et al. (Am J Epidemiol....

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PMID: 26363515
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwv178
PMCID: PMC4617297

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