BACKGROUND Recent studies have suggested that metabolic health may contribute more to the atherosclerosis than obesity. The aim of this study is to compare coronary artery calcium scores (CACS) among patients with different metabolic health and obesity status. METHODS A health-screening program of 24,063 participants (mean age 41 years) was conducted, and CACS was assessed by multi-detector c...

First, we wish to express our great thanks to Prof. Kim for choosing our article and for noting an important point in our study. During the past few years, metabolically healthy obesity (MHO) has been a hot topic of debate in the field of obesity because its definition differs slightly from that of metabolic syndrome and because the inclusion of insulin resistance and systemic inflammatory mark...

Background Genetically, predisposed children are considered as at-risk individuals for cardiovascular disease. In this study, we aimed to compare the frequency of four-lipid regulatory polymorphism in obese and normal-weight children with and without cardiometabolic risk factors. Materials and Methods In this nested case-control study, 600 samples of four groups of participants consisted of t...

OBJECTIVE The clinical relevance of the metabolically normal but obese phenotype for mortality risk is unclear. This study examines the risk for all-cause mortality in metabolically normal and abnormal obese (MNOB and MAOB, respectively) individuals. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The sample included 6,011 men and women from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III)...

Objective To investigate the proportion of circulating invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells in four body health types. Methods In this cross-sectional study, participants were classified into four body health types according to the body mass index and metabolic status: metabolically healthy and normal weight (MHNW), metabolically unhealthy but normal weight (MUNW), metabolically healthy but ...