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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 CVD ri...

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Autores principales: Dhana, Klodian, Koolhaas, Chantal M., van Rossum, Elisabeth F. C., Ikram, M. Arfan, Hofman, Albert, Kavousi, Maryam, Franco, Oscar H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4839559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27100779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0154273