Vol 71, No 3 (2020)
Clinical vignette
Published online: 2020-05-12
Does metabolically healthy obesity exist? A 32-year-old man with BMI 78 kg/m2 — to treat or not to treat?
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Abstract
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Keywords: metabolically healthysever obesity
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