The prevalence of metabolically healthy obesity according to the sample of the Moscow region

Autor: Elena V. Ostrovskaya, Tatiana I. Romantsova, Andrei N. Gerasimov, Tamara E. Novoselova
Jazyk: English<br />Russian
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Ожирение и метаболизм, Vol 14, Iss 4, Pp 51-56 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2071-8713
2306-5524
DOI: 10.14341/omet2017451-56
Popis: Introduction. Obesity is a major factor for cardiometabolic risk. However, there is a category of obese patients without disorders of lipid, carbohydrate metabolism and cardiovascular disease – metabolically healthy obese (MHO). Aim. Our goal was to investigate the prevalence and characteristics of this phenotype compared to patients with metabolic syndrome (MS). Materials and methods. To evaluate the prevalence of the MHO phenotype we analyzed 389 medical records of females aged 18–60 years with obesity. Three types of MHO criteria were used: 1) HOMA index (
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