Does metabolically healthy obesity really exist: going toward new definitions.

Abstract excerpt

CONTEXT: Obesity is a heterogeneous chronic disease traditionally defined by body mass index, yet individuals with similar body mass index values can exhibit substantial variability in the presence of cardiometabolic risk factors independent of adiposity. Such discordance has led to the concept of "metabolically healthy obesity," describing individuals with excess adiposity but without overt metabolic...

Topics

• Humans
• Obesity, Metabolically Benign
• Body Mass Index
• Adiposity
• Cardiometabolic Risk Factors
• Phenotype
• Obesity