Metabolic health and weight: Understanding metabolically unhealthy normal weight or metabolically healthy obese patients

Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 73-80

  Mathew, Hannah ^a,b   Farr, Olivia M ^a,b   Mantzoros, Christos S ^b  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DIET; HEALTH CARE COST; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; METABOLICALLY HEALTHY OBESE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MICE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84949674714     PISSN: 00260495     EISSN: 15328600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.metabol.2015.10.019     Document Type: Editorial

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