Prevalence of metabolically-obese normal-weight worldwide: systematic review and meta-analysis

• Autores: Vera Ponce, Víctor Juan, Zenas-Trujillo, Gianella Zulema, Trujillo-Ramirez, Irma, Carhuavilca-Torres, Jesus Maritza, Ayala-Mendivil, Ronald Espiritu
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Universidad Tecnológica del Perú
• Repositorio: UTP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.utp.edu.pe:20.500.12867/7948
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12867/7948; https://doi.org/10.14740/jem882
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Metabolically-obese; Normal-weight; Systematic literature review; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.00.00

Background: Obesity causes the loss of body homeostasis and pre-disposes to the development of disease; some individuals present al-terations described even having a normal body mass index (BMI), and these are called thin metabolically obese. The objective was to carry out a systematic review with meta-analysis to determine the preva-lence of metabolically-obese normal-weight (MONW) worldwide.Methods: The search for studies was conducted from May to June 2022 in the EMBASE, PubMed, WOS, and Scopus databases. The pu-rification and ordering of data were carried out using the Excel 2016 program, later a meta-analysis with the Stata version 17 program.Results: A total of 408,251 people with normal BMI were identi-fied, of whom 78,054 had a metabolic disorder, and the prevalence after the meta-analysis was 26.78% (95% confidence interval: 18.45 - 36.03) with high heterogeneity (I2 = 99.86%).Conclusion: The findings of the systematic review confirm a high prevalence of MONW worldwide.