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Invited Commentary: Limitations and Usefulness of the Metabolically Healthy Obesity Phenotype

Author(s) -

Patrick T. Bradshaw,

June Stevens

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

american journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.33

H-Index - 256

eISSN - 1476-6256

pISSN - 0002-9262

DOI - 10.1093/aje/kwv178

Subject(s) - obesity , perspective (graphical) , public health , anthropometry , metric (unit) , medicine , population , gerontology , environmental health , endocrinology , computer science , pathology , artificial intelligence , operations management , economics

The fraction of the obese population who appear to be free of the metabolic abnormalities that usually accompany excess adiposity has garnered a great deal of attention recently. The so-called "metabolically healthy obesity" concept is thought to offer a refinement of the traditional obesity definitions that are based solely on anthropometry. The commentary by Rey-López et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2015;182(9):737-741) in this issue of the Journal highlights several limitations of the "metabolically healthy obesity" concept and calls into question its usefulness as a public health metric. We discuss several of the issues raised by these authors and offer some perspective on why the utility of this concept remains unresolved.

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