Metabolically Healthy Obesity and Risk of All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality

Previous studies have identified an obese phenotype without the burden of adiposity-associated cardiometabolic risk factors, although the health effects remain unclear. We examined the association between metabolically healthy obesity and risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality. This was an observational study with prospective linkage to mortality records in community-dwelling adults from the general population in Scotland...