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Insulin resistance persists despite a metabolically healthy obesity phenotype.
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) - 1 Jan 2022
Hoddy Kristin K, Axelrod Christopher L, Mey Jacob T, Hari Adithya, Beyl Robbie A, Blair Jourdan B, Dantas Wagner S, Kirwan John P
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OBJECTIVE: Metabolically healthy obesity (MHO) is often defined as the absence of metabolic syndrome in the presence of obesity. However, phenotypic features of MHO are unclear. Insulin sensitivity in MHO was cross-sectionally compared with metabolically unhealthy obesity (MUO) and a reference group of young healthy participants without obesity. METHODS: Sedentary adults (n = 96) undergoing anthropometric, blood...
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