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Does metabolically healthy obesity exist? A 32-year-old man with BMI 78 kg/m2 — to treat or not to treat?


- Chair and Department of Internal Medicine, Metabolic Disorders, and Hypertension, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland
- Chair and Department of Treatment of Obesity, Metabolic Disorders, and Clinical Dietetics, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland
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Keywords
metabolically healthy; sever obesity


Title
Does metabolically healthy obesity exist? A 32-year-old man with BMI 78 kg/m2 — to treat or not to treat?
Journal
Issue
Article type
Clinical vignette
Pages
281-282
Published online
2020-05-12
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704
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602
DOI
10.5603/EP.a2020.0022
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Bibliographic record
Endokrynol Pol 2020;71(3):281-282.
Keywords
metabolically healthy
sever obesity
Authors
Marta Walczak-Gałęzewska
Agnieszka Ratajczak
Katarzyna Pastusiak
Wiesław Bryl
Paweł Bogdański


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