Metabolically healthy obesity – is it time to lay the myth to rest?

Metabolically healthy obesity (MHO) has been defined as a condition wherein obesity does not produce metabolic complications such as dyslipidemia, impaired glucose tolerance, or metabolic syndrome.1-2 These individuals also have less visceral adipose tissue, smaller adipocytes, and a reduced inflammatory profile when compared to metabolically unhealthy obese individuals, and their cardiac and metabolic risk does not improve as a result of weight loss interventions.xxdenis,1-3