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Metabolically Healthy Obesity: Criteria, Epidemiology, Controversies, and Consequences.

Current obesity reports - 1 Jun 2020

Tsatsoulis Agathocles, Paschou Stavroula A

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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To present a comprehensive overview regarding criteria, epidemiology, and controversies that have arisen in the literature about the existence and the natural course of the metabolic healthy phenotype. RECENT FINDINGS: The concept of metabolically healthy obesity (MHO) implies that a subgroup of obese individuals may be free of the cardio-metabolic risk factors that commonly accompany obese...

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PMID: 32301039
DOI: 10.1007/s13679-020-00375-0

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