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Body size phenotypes comprehensively assess cardiometabolic risk and refine the association between obesity and gut microbiota.
International journal of obesity (2005) - 1 Mar 2018
de la Cuesta-Zuluaga J, Corrales-Agudelo V, Carmona J A, Abad J M, Escobar J S
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OBJECTIVE: The gut microbiota associates with obesity and related disorders, but recent meta-analyses have found that this association is, at best, of small effect. We argue that such analyses are flawed by the use of body mass index (BMI) as sole proxy for disease, and explore a classification method that distinguishes the cardiometabolic health status of individuals to look for more comprehensive associations...
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