Background: Obesity causes the loss of body homeostasis and predisposes to development disease; some individuals present alterations described even having a normal mass index (BMI), these are called thin metabolically obese. The objective was carry out systematic review with meta-analysis determine prevalence metabolically-obese normal-weight (MONW) worldwide. Methods: search for studies conduc...

BACKGROUND Obesity is often associated with high cardiovascular disease risk factors. Obesity is common in African American women. We investigated the characteristics of metabolically healthy and metabolically unhealthy overweight/obese African American women based on the presence of insulin resistance. MATERIALS/METHODS We studied 196 apparently healthy overweight/obese African American wome...

BACKGROUND We estimated the prevalence of metabolically obese nonobese (MONO), metabolically obese obese (MOO), and metabolically healthy obese (MHO) individuals and correlated this with the prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD) compared to metabolically healthy nonobese (MHNO) in urban South Indians. METHOD Study subjects (n = 2350) were recruited from the Chennai Urban Rural Epidemiol...

OBJECTIVE The risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) differs in the normal weight, overweight, and obese individuals owing to metabolic abnormality. We aimed to determine the combined effects of body mass index (BMI) and metabolic status on the risk of the prevalence and incidence of CKD. METHODS Pubmed, Scopus, Web of science, and abstracts from recently relevant meetings prior to April 2016 w...

AIM The metabolically healthy obese (MHO) phenotype refers to obese individuals with a favourable metabolic profile. Its prognostic value is unclear and may depend on the health outcome being examined. We examined the association of MHO phenotype with incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type 2 diabetes. METHODS AND RESULTS Body mass index and metabolic health, assessed using the Adult T...

BACKGROUND Recent studies report the importance of metabolic health beyond obesity. The aim of this study is to compare the risk for diabetes development according to different status of metabolic health and obesity over a median follow-up of 48.7 months. METHODS 6,748 non-diabetic subjects (mean age 43 years) were divided into four groups according to the baseline metabolic health and obesit...