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Differences between Metabolically Healthy vs Unhealthy Obese Children and Adolescents.
Journal of the National Medical Association - 1 Jan 2000
Khokhar Aditi, Chin Vivian, Perez-Colon Sheila, Farook Tanni, Bansal Shipra, Kochummen Elna, Umpaichitra Vatcharapan
Abstract excerpt
Obesity is on the rise worldwide. An obesity subtype, metabolically healthy obese (MHO), is resilient to unfavorable metabolic and cardiovascular effects. Factors predicting MHO phenotype are not well characterized. We aimed to identify MHO and metabolically unhealthy obese (MUO) children and adolescents with respect to metabolic factors, and to find predictors of MHO subtype. A retrospective chart review was...
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