Metabolically healthy obese versus cardiorespiratory fit obese: Is it time to bring them together?

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1183-1184

  Babu, Abraham Samuel ^a   Veluswamy, Sundar Kumar ^b   Myers, Jonathan ^b   Lavie, Carl J ^b  

^a MANIPAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; CARDIORESPIRATORY FIT OBESE; CARDIORESPIRATORY FITNESS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LETTER; METABOLICALLY HEALTHY OBESE; MISCELLANEOUS NAMED GROUPS; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; FITNESS; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; HUMANS; OBESITY; PHYSICAL FITNESS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

EID: 84922395280     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2014.05.061     Document Type: Letter

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