Survey shows share of people in US with ‘metabolically healthy obesity’ has risen

A combined team of medical scientists from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Hubei University of Medicine, both in China, has found that the ratio of people living in the U.S. with “metabolically healthy obesity” (MHO) has risen over the past 20 years. In their study, published on the JAMA Network Open site, the group analyzed data in the NHANES survey.