Abstract:Objectives: Although obese individuals without obesity related metabolic abnormalities are often defined as metabolically healthy, risks for developing such abnormalities have not been evaluated well. Recently, a prospective study showed that metabolically healthy obese subjects were at higher risk of diabetes, stroke and cardiovascular disease than metabolically healthy subjects without obesity in UK. We here analyzed the association between metabolically healthy obesity and a risk for developing diabetes in … Show more
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