Characterization of Metabolically Healthy Obese People and Metabolically Unhealthy Normal-Weight People in a General Population Cohort of the ABCD Study

There is actually no consensus about the possibility that in some instances, obesity may be a benign metabolically healthy (MH) condition as opposed to a normal-weight but metabolically unhealthy (MUH) state. The aim of this study was to characterize MH condition and to investigate possible associat...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of Diabetes Research 2017-01, Vol.2017 (2017), p.1-9
Hauptverfasser: Cosentino, Loretta, Giordano, Carla, Settipani, Valentina, Rosafio, Giuseppe, Barile, Anna Maria, Massenti, Maria Fatima, Corleo, Davide, Buscemi, Carola, Chiarello, Pierfilippo, Buscemi, Silvio, Maniaci, Vincenza
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Zusammenfassung:There is actually no consensus about the possibility that in some instances, obesity may be a benign metabolically healthy (MH) condition as opposed to a normal-weight but metabolically unhealthy (MUH) state. The aim of this study was to characterize MH condition and to investigate possible associations with metabolic and cardiovascular complications. One thousand nineteen people (range of age 18–90 years) of the cohort of the ABCD_2 study were investigated. Participants were classified as normal weight (BMI 
ISSN:2314-6745
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DOI:10.1155/2017/9294038