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Obesity or obesities? Controversies on the association between body mass index and premature mortality.
Abstract Obesity is still defined on the basis of body mass index (BMI) and BMI in itself is generally accepted as a strong predictor of overall early mortality. However, an inverse association between BMI and mortality has been reported in patients with many disease states and in several clinical settings: hemodialysis, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, stroke, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, surgery, etc. This unexpected phenomenon is usually called obesity-survival paradox (OP). The contiguous concepts of metabolically healthy obesity (MHO, a phenotype having BMI ≥ 30 but not having an...
Source: Eating and weight disorders : EWD - April 3, 2016 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Authors: Bosello O, Donataccio MP, Cuzzolaro M Tags: Eat Weight Disord Source Type: research