SEP 11, 2026 · JOURNAL ARTICLE
A six-metabolite signature characterizes metabolically unhealthy obesity and reveals hidden metabolic risk within metabolically healthy obesity
Frontiers in Endocrinology
A metabolomic signature study with sound observational design, clear discriminatory performance (AUC 0.78), and mechanistic pathway findings, but based on cross-sectional association in a single population requiring validation before clinical use.
Reported
Sample size13215
Proteomic subsampleapproximately 1408
Combined clinical-metabolomic mod…0.78