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Table 1 Definition of metabolic health [2]

From: Metabolically healthy obese and metabolic syndrome of the lean: the importance of diet quality. Analysis of MAGNETIC cohort

Parameter

Cut-offs

Blood pressure

SBP ≥130 mmHg or DBP ≥85 mmHg

or use of antihypertensive medicationa

Triglycerides

≥150 mg/dl

or use of lipid-lowering medicationa

HDL cholesterol

Men < 40 mg/dl (1.0 mmol/l)

Women < 50 mg/dl (1.2 mmol/l)

Total cholesterol

> 200 mg/dl (5.2 mmol/l)

or use of cholesterol-lowering medicationa

Glucose

Glucose > 100 mg/dl (> 5.55 mmol/l) or diabetes mellitus type 2

Metabolically healthy (without metabolic syndrome)

0–1 of the above cut-offs

Metabolically unhealthy (with metabolic syndrome)

≥2 of the above cut-offs

  1. aNone of the subjects was on lipid lowering or hypertensive therapy