Association of metabolically healthy obesity and elevated risk of coronary artery calcification: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Background Metabolically healthy obesity (MHO) is defined as obesity with less than two parameters of metabolic abnormalities. Some studies report that MHO individuals show similar risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) compared with metabolically healthy non-obese (MHNO) individuals, but the results...

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Main Authors: Yu-wen Hsueh, Tzu-Lin Yeh, Chien-Yu Lin, Szu-Ying Tsai, Shu-Jung Liu, Chi-Min Lin, Hsin-Hao Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2020-03-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/8815.pdf