Profile of individuals who are metabolically healthy obese using different definition criteria. A population-based analysis in the Spanish population.

BACKGROUND: Obesity is associated with numerous metabolic complications such as diabetes mellitus type 2, dyslipidemia, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases and several forms of cancer. Our goal was to compare different criteria to define the metabolically healthy obese (MHO) with metabolically unh...

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Main Authors: María Teresa Martínez-Larrad, Arturo Corbatón Anchuelo, Náyade Del Prado, José María Ibarra Rueda, Rafael Gabriel, Manuel Serrano-Ríos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4157807?pdf=render