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"Metabolically Healthy" Obesity: Fact or Threat?

Current diabetes reviews - 1 Jan 2018

De Lorenzo Andrea, da Cruz Lamas Cristiane, Lessa Rafael, Moreira Annie Seixas Bello

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INTRODUCTION: Obesity is a serious, worldwide and growing problem, with associated complications ranging from cardiovascular disease to cancer. It has been suggested that a subgroup of obese patients- the "metabolically healthy" (MH)- would constitute a phenotype whose cardiovascular risk would be closer to that of normal weight individuals and lower than that of obese patients with other risk factors. The...

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PMID: 28464766
DOI: 10.2174/1573399813666170502105859

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