Is the Metabolically Healthy Obesity Phenotype an Irrelevant Artifact for Public Health?

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 182, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 737-741

  Rey López, Juan Pablo ^a   De Rezende, Leandro Fornias ^b   De Sá, Thiago Hérick ^b   Stamatakis, Emmanuel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

metabolic syndrome; obesity; prevention; risk factors

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; METABOLICALLY HEALTHY OBESITY; NOTE; OBESITY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PHENOTYPE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEIGHT GAIN; CLASSIFICATION; OBESITY, METABOLICALLY BENIGN; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

HUMANS; OBESITY, METABOLICALLY BENIGN; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84947588763     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwv177     Document Type: Note

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