Metabolically healthy obese people have a long-term increased risk for death and cardiovascular events compared with their normal-weight counterparts, suggesting there is no such thing as benign obesity, according to a meta-analysis.
When studies with follow-ups of a decade or more were considered, obese people with no metabolic abnormalities had a 24% increased risk for these events compared with metabolically healthy, normal-weight people (relative risk 1.24; 95% CI 1.02-1.55), reported Caroline K. Kramer, MD, PhD, of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, and colleagues.
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