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    New definition of metabolically healthy obesity

    • Last Update: 2021-06-18
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    This article is from NEJM Journal Watch New Definition of Metabolically Healthy Obesity.
    Comment by Thomas L.
    Schwenk, MD.
    In obese people, blood pressure, diabetes and waist-to-hip ratio are related to cardiovascular risk.
    The most closely related variable
    .

    The concept of metabolically healthy obesity is controversial
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    In this study, the researchers proposed a new definition based on two large-scale population prospective cohort studies on healthy behaviors and outcomes (386,000 participants; average ages of 42 and 56 years; average body mass index [BMI] is the data in 27 kg/m2)
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    The researchers followed the two cohorts for an average of 8 and 15 years, during which 2,600 cardiovascular disease-related deaths occurred
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    In the adjusted analysis, participants with BMI≥30 kg/m2, systolic blood pressure <130 mmHg without antihypertensive drugs, no diabetes, and waist-to-hip ratio <0.
    94 (female) or <1.
    03 (male) Excessive risk of cardiovascular disease or death
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    The prevalence of metabolically healthy obesity was 41% in one cohort and 19% in the other cohort
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    Comment on this exploratory study that may help clinicians answer the following questions of obese patients: What is their risk of cardiovascular disease in the absence of significant metabolic dysfunction? This study again focuses on waist-to-hip ratio, which has received much attention before, that is, the risk of cardiovascular disease associated with the "pear-shaped" body is lower than the risk of cardiovascular disease associated with the "apple-shaped" body
    .

    Commented article Zembic A et al.
    An empirically derived definition of metabolically healthy obesity based on risk of cardiovascular and total mortality.
    JAMA Netw Open 2021 May 7; 4:e218505.
    (https://doi.
    org/10.
    1001/jamanetworkopen.
    2021.
    8505 ) NEJM Journal Watch is published by NEJM Group.
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