Metabolically normal obesity: a misnomer?

In two recent articles in the International Journal of Obesity, Pataky et al.1, 2 have considered the question of how to effectively define those persons who are obese, but who do not have the metabolic disturbances commonly associated with obesity: the ‘metabolically normal obese’. Although there is no doubt interest in investigating which persons are more or less susceptible to the development of the various components of the metabolic...