Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Obesity Volume 2012, Article ID 460321, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2012/460321
Research Article All-Cause Mortality Risk of Metabolically Healthy Obese Individuals in NHANES III C. M. Durward, T. J. Hartman, and S. M. Nickols-Richardson Department of Nutritional Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, 110 Chandlee Building, University Park, PA 16801, USA Correspondence should be addressed to S. M. Nickols-Richardson,
[email protected] Received 1 August 2012; Revised 29 October 2012; Accepted 29 October 2012 Academic Editor: Jack A. Yanovski Copyright © 2012 C. M. Durward et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Mortality risk across metabolic health-by-BMI categories in NHANES-III was examined. Metabolic health was defined as: (1) homeostasis model assessment-insulin resistance (HOMA-IR)
