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Relationship between obesity severity, metabolic status and cardiovascular disease in obese adults.
European journal of clinical investigation - 1 Mar 2023
Liu Yingxin, Douglas Pamela S, Lip Gregory Y H, Thabane Lehana, Li Likang, Ye Zebing, Li Guowei
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BACKGROUND: Evidence about the associations between obesity severity, metabolic status and risk of incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) in adults with obesity remains limited. METHODS: The study included 109,301 adults with obesity free of prior CVD based on the UK Biobank cohort. Metabolic status was categorized into metabolically healthy obesity (MHO; free of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and diabetes)...
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