Diabetes Risk Higher in Metabolically Healthy Obese Korean People

Design and methods: The study population comprised 36,135 Koreans without type 2 diabetes. Participants were stratified by BMI (cutoff value, 25.0 kg/m²) and metabolic health state (assessed using Adult Treatment Panel-III criteria). High-sensitive C-reactive protein (hsCRP) was used as a surrogate marker of systemic inflammation. Subjects were classified into low (i.e., hsCRP< 0.5 mg/L) and high (i.e., hsCRP ≥ 0.5 mg/L) systemic inflammation groups.

Conclusions: MHO subjects show a substantially higher risk of incident type 2 diabetes than MHNO subjects. The level of systemic inflammation partially explains this increased risk.

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