Healthy obesity/Bibliography

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Wildman, R.P. 2009. Healthy Obesity. Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolice Care. 12. 438-443.

Aguilar-Salinas, C.A. et al. 2008. High Adiponectin concentrations Are Associated with the Metabolically Healthy Obese Phenotype. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 93 (10). 4075-4079.

Wildman, R.P. et al. 2008. The Obese Without Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Clustering and the Normal Weight With Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Clustering. Archives of Internal Medicine. 158(15). 1617-1624.

Stefan, N. et al. 2008. Identification and Characterization of Metabolically Benign Obesity in Humans. Archives of Internal Medicine 168(15). 1609-1616.

Marini, M.A. et al. 2007. Metabolically Healthy but Obese Women Have an Intermediate Cardiovascular Risk Factor Profile Between Healhty Nonobese Women and Obese Insulin-Resistant Women. Diabetes Care. 30(8). 2145-2147.

Karelis, A.D. et al. 2008. Metabolically healthy but obese women: effect of an energy-restricted diet. Diabetologia. 51. 1752-1754.

Oreopoulos, A. et al. 2008. Body Mass Index and Mortality in Heart Failure: A Meta-analysis. The American Heart Journal vol 156 (1) Tijmen van Slageren 17:43, 24 October 2011 (UTC) A meta-analysis of ~28 000 people with chronic heart failure which found a lower rate of mortality from all causes and cardiovascular causes in people in the BMI ~25 (overweight) and >30 (obese) categories when compared with BMI ~20 (normal). Mean follow up time of 2.7 years. Included as it is a substantial analysis that reports the obesity paradox

Calle, E.E. et al 1999 Body Mass Index and Mortality in a Prospective Cohort of US Adults. The New England Journal of Medicine vol 341(15) Tijmen van Slageren 17:43, 24 October 2011 (UTC) A meta-analysis of 300 000 people (taken from the Cancer prevention study 2 pool of >1million) finds that there is an increase of mortality from all causes in overweight and obese people. Follow up of 14 years. Note strength of this study and opposition to Oreopoulos et al. Also >1400 citations on pub med.