Metabolically healthy and unhealthy obesity: differential effects on myocardial function according to metabolic syndrome, rather than obesity

BACKGROUND: The term ‘metabolically healthy obese (MHO)’ is distinguished using body mass index (BMI), yet BMI is a poor index of adiposity. Some epidemiological data suggest that MHO carries a lower risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) or mortality than being normal weight yet metabolically unhealt...

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Main Authors:	Rebecca Dobson, Malcolm I. Burgess, Victoria S. Sprung, Andrew Irwin, Mark Hamer, Julia Jones, Christina Daousi, Valerie Adams, Graham J. Kemp, Fariba Shojaee-Moradie, Margot Umpleby, Daniel J. Cuthbertson
Format:	Default Article
Published:	2015
Subjects:	Other education not elsewhere classified Other health sciences not elsewhere classified untagged Education Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/19095
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