Physiological and Lifestyle Traits of Metabolic Dysfunction in the Absence of Obesity

Individuals with metabolically unhealthy normal weight (MUNW) have an adverse cardiometabolic risk factor profile in the absence of excess body weight, and increased risk for diabetes and heart disease. We critically review some physiological traits and lifestyle characteristics of the MUNW phenotype. The prevalence of MUNW varies considerably around the world and among ethnicities, partly because of different definitions; on average, this...