{"id":6136,"date":"2012-05-27T05:30:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T03:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=6136"},"modified":"2015-02-16T08:58:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T13:58:20","slug":"metabolically-healthy-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/metabolically-healthy-obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"Metabolically Healthy Obesity Not Associated with Higher CVD Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/weight-nation-pros-cons\/\">my review of Part 1 of &#8220;The Weight of the Nation,&#8221;<\/a> I raised a subject not discussed in the documentary: the existence of metabolically healthy obese people. Now that I&#8217;ve seen the entire documentary, I&#8217;m still somewhat unsatisfied with the writers&#8217;\/producers&#8217; &#8220;black\/white&#8221; view of obesity: if your BMI is &gt;30, you&#8217;re a ticking time bomb. Your increased risk for diabetes and\/or heart disease\u00a0was simply assumed.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drsharma.ca\/metabolically-healthy-obesity-is-not-associated-with-higher-mortality-risk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this report relayed by bariatrician Arya Sharma<\/a>, however, things\u00a0may not be\u00a0quite so dire&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a study by Mark Hamer and Emmanuel Stamatakis from University College London, published in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/22508708\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Journal of Clinical Epidemiology<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, the researchers show that \u2018metabolically\u2019 healthy obese individuals have minimally (if at all) increased risk of cardiovascular mortality.<\/p>\n<p>Their study looked at mortality records in 22,203 men and women community-dwelling adults from the general population in Scotland and England without known history of cardiovascular disease (CVD) at baseline.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Compared with metabolically healthy nonobese participants, metabolically \u2018healthy\u2019 obese individuals were not at elevated risk of CVD over the seven year observation period.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast both metabolically \u2018unhealthy\u2019 nonobese and obese participants were were at a significantly elevated risk for heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, metabolically \u2018unhealthy\u2019 obese participants were also at elevated risk of all-cause mortality compared with their metabolically healthy obese counterparts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dr. Sharma comments: &#8220;Clearly treatment recommendations based on BMI alone should be now considered obsolete and perhaps best relegated to history books.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my review of Part 1 of &#8220;The Weight of the Nation,&#8221; I raised a subject not discussed in the documentary: the existence of metabolically healthy obese people. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,24,28],"tags":[321,325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9357,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions\/9357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}