TY - JOUR AU - Pastusiak, Katarzyna AU - Przysławski, Juliusz PY - 2018/03/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The criteria of the identification of metabolic obesity among people with normal body weight and their use in everyday practice JF - Journal of Medical Science JA - JMS VL - 87 IS - 1 SE - Review Papers DO - 10.20883/jms.2018.259 UR - https://jms.ump.edu.pl/index.php/JMS/article/view/259 SP - 34-39 AB - Obesity and the metabolic syndrome caused by it constitute one of the biggest health issues of the 21st century. However, a problem of “a concealed form of obesity” — metabolic obesity with a normal body weight, which manifests clinically through the occurrence of metabolism disorders related to obesity among people with a normal body mass index — was pointed out in the 1980s. This affliction entails similar health consequences and causes many more problems in diagnosis and early treatment because a lack of obesity does not make doctors search for the traits of metabolic syndrome among seemingly healthy patients. The aim of this study is to present a proposition of diagnostic criteria for this disease in the historical perspective and to consider the possibilities of their use in everyday clinic practice. ER -