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Health Misreporting

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

There's a new study that purports to tell us that fat people can be healthy: The Obese Without Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Clustering and the Normal Weight With Cardiometabolic Risk Factor ClusteringPrevalence and Correlates of 2 Phenotypes Among the US Population (NHANES 1999-2004)Rachel P. Wildman, PhD; Paul Muntner, PhD; Kristi Reynolds, PhD; Aileen P. McGinn, PhD; Swapnil Rajpathak, MD, DrPH; Judith Wylie-Rosett, EdD; MaryFran R. Sowers, PhDArch Intern Med. 2008;168(15):1617-1624.Background The prevalence and correlates of obese individuals who are resistant to the development of the adiposity-associated cardiometabolic abnormalities and normal-weight individuals who display cardiometabolic risk factor clustering are not well known.Methods The prevalence and correlates of combined body mass index (normal weight, continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on August 25, 2008 (boomark / email).