Obesity contributes to reduced life expectancy, impaired quality of life, and disabilities,
mainly in those individuals who develop cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes …

Abstract Purpose of Review To present a comprehensive overview regarding criteria,
epidemiology, and controversies that have arisen in the literature about the existence and …

Obesity has become one of the major public health concerns of the past decades, because it
is a key risk factor for type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, dyslipidemia, hypertension …

Metabolically healthy obesity (MHO) is a new concept in which an individual may exhibit an
obese phenotype in the absence of any metabolic abnormalities. There are a number of …

The concept of metabolic health, particularly in obesity, has attracted a lot of attention in the
scientific community, and is being increasingly used to determine the risk of cardiovascular …

Although obesity is typically associated with metabolic dysfunction and cardiometabolic
diseases, some people with obesity are protected from many of the adverse metabolic …

Obesity is most commonly defined as a BMI of over 30 kg/m2. Typical classification is into
categories of Class I (BMI> 30 kg/m2), Class II (BMI equal to or over 35 kg/m2) and Class III …

Obesity is associated with increased risk of developing metabolic syndrome (MetS), type 2
diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) leading to higher all-cause …

The relationship between obesity and other metabolic diseases have been deeply studied.
However, there are clinical inconsistencies, exceptions to the paradigm of “more fat means …

Obesity-related disease complications reduce life quality and expectancy and increase
health-care costs. Some studies have suggested that obesity not always entails metabolic …