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Metabolically Healthy and Unhealthy Obese Phenotypes among Arabs and South Asians: Prevalence and Relationship with Cardiometabolic Indicators.
Nutrients - 22 Feb 2022
Oguoma Victor M, Abu-Farha Mohamed, Coffee Neil T, Alsharrah Saad, Al-Refaei Faisal H, Abubaker Jehad, Daniel Mark, Al-Mulla Fahd
Abstract excerpt
Obesity is a public health crisis in Kuwait. However, not all obese individuals are metabolically unhealthy (MuHO) given the link between obesity and future cardiovascular events. We assessed the prevalence of the metabolically healthy obese (MHO) phenotype and its relationship with high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT), and insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) in Arab and...
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