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Bitemporal Obesity: An Overlooked Sign of Visceral Obesity?

With increasing rates of morbidity and mortality associated with visceral obesity, as well as its related cardiometabolic disorders, physical findings that aid in diagnosing patients at risk for such conditions are extremely useful. This brief report introduces the novel facial physical sign of bite...

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Autor principal: Abrahim, Mohammed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9249036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35784986
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25575
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description With increasing rates of morbidity and mortality associated with visceral obesity, as well as its related cardiometabolic disorders, physical findings that aid in diagnosing patients at risk for such conditions are extremely useful. This brief report introduces the novel facial physical sign of bitemporal obesity, which the author observed in a patient and suggests to be associated with visceral obesity.
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spelling pubmed-92490362022-07-02 Bitemporal Obesity: An Overlooked Sign of Visceral Obesity? Abrahim, Mohammed Cureus Family/General Practice With increasing rates of morbidity and mortality associated with visceral obesity, as well as its related cardiometabolic disorders, physical findings that aid in diagnosing patients at risk for such conditions are extremely useful. This brief report introduces the novel facial physical sign of bitemporal obesity, which the author observed in a patient and suggests to be associated with visceral obesity. Cureus 2022-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9249036/ /pubmed/35784986 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25575 Text en Copyright © 2022, Abrahim et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_fullStr Bitemporal Obesity: An Overlooked Sign of Visceral Obesity?
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title_short Bitemporal Obesity: An Overlooked Sign of Visceral Obesity?
title_sort bitemporal obesity: an overlooked sign of visceral obesity?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9249036/
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