Prevalence and clinical characteristics of metabolically healthy obese individuals and other obese/non-obese metabolic phenotypes in a working population: results from the Icaria study

• Main Authors: Albert Goday (Author), Eva Calvo (Author), Luis Alberto Vázquez (Author), Elena Caveda (Author), Teresa Margallo (Author), Carlos Catalina-Romero (Author), Jesús Reviriego (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2016-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Metabolically healthy obese (MHO) phenotype may present with distinct characteristics compared with those with a metabolically unhealthy obese phenotype. Epidemiologic data on the distribution of these conditions in the working population are lacking. We aimed to evaluate the pre...