Metabolically Healthy Obesity and the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly Population.

Metabolically Healthy Obesity and the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly Population.

BACKGROUND:Whether being metabolically healthy obese (MHO)-defined by the presence of obesity in the absence of metabolic syndrome-is associated with subsequent cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains unclear and may depend on the participants' age. We examined the association of being MHO with CV...

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Main Authors: Klodian Dhana, Chantal M Koolhaas, Elisabeth F C van Rossum, M Arfan Ikram, Albert Hofman, Maryam Kavousi, Oscar H Franco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4839559?pdf=render

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