Role of Fitness in the Metabolically Healthy but Obese Phenotype: A Review and Update

Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 76-86

  Ortega, Francisco B ^a,b   Cadenas Sánchez, Cristina ^a   Sui, Xuemei ^c   Blair, Steven N ^c   Lavie, Carl J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cardiorespiratory fitness; Metabolically abnormal obese; Metabolically healthy but obese; Mortality; Muscular strength; Physical fitness; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIORESPIRATORY FITNESS; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FITNESS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; METABOLICALLY ABNORMAL OBESE; METABOLICALLY HEALTHY BUT OBESE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OBESITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROGNOSIS; ENERGY METABOLISM; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

BODY MASS INDEX; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84937642095     PISSN: 00330620     EISSN: 18731740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcad.2015.05.001     Document Type: Article

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