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Causes, Characteristics, and Consequences of Metabolically Unhealthy Normal Weight in Humans
A BMI in the normal range associates with a decreased risk of cardiometabolic disease and all-cause mortality. However, not all subjects in this BMI range have this low risk. Compared to people who are of normal weight and metabolically healthy, subjects who are of normal weight but metabolically unhealthy (∼20% of the normal weight adult population) have a greater than 3-fold higher risk of all-cause mortality and/or cardiovascular events.
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The Health Risk of Obesity—Better Metrics Imperative
it has been estimated that about 10% of adults in the United States have obese BMI and are metabolically healthy
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