Impact of the Definition of Metabolically Healthy Obesity on the Association with Incident Cardiovascular Disease

Background: Whether subjects with metabolically healthy obesity (MHO) have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is controversial. Some of this discrepancy could be due to differences in the definition of MHO. Therefore, we investigated how the definition of MHO affected the risk of CVD. Methods: In the Uppsala Longitudinal Study of Adult Men (ULSAM) cohort (total n = 2122, mean age 50 years), obese (n = 134), overweight (n = 845),...