Obesity Paradox, Obesity Orthodox, and the Metabolic Syndrome: An Approach to Unity

• Main Authors: Jesse Roth (Author), Navneet Sahota (Author), Priya Patel (Author), Syed F Mehdi (Author), Mohammad M Wiese (Author), Hafiz B Mahboob (Author), Michelle Bravo (Author), Daniel J Eden (Author), Muhammad A Bashir (Author), Amrat Kumar (Author), Farah Alsaati (Author), Irwin J Kurland (Author), Wunnie Brima (Author), Ann Danoff (Author), Alessandra L Szulc (Author), Valentin A Pavlov (Author), Kevin J Tracey (Author), Huan Yang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Obesity and its accompanying metabolic syndrome are strongly associated with heightened morbidity and mortality in older adults. In our review of more than 20 epidemiologic studies of major infectious diseases, including tuberculosis, community-acquired pneumonia and sepsis, obesity was ass...