Cardiometabolic Risk MUHO - MHO (IMAGE)

Deutsches Zentrum fuer Diabetesforschung DZD

Cardiometabolic Risk MUHO - MHO

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In comparison to people with metabolically abnormal obesity (approximately 70 percent of people with obesity, who have more than one of the above mentioned risks factors, cardiometabolic risks + 150 percent), people with metabolically healthy obesity (approximately 30 percent of people with obesity, at most one of the above-mentioned risk factors) have 25 percent increased cardiometabolic risk in comparison to people with normal weight.

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