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(Q357496)

English

obesity paradox

medical hypothesis which holds that obesity may be protective and associated with greater survival in certain groups of people

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instance of
paradox
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subclass of
social stigma of obesity
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reference URL
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-obesity-research-fatphobia-is-always-the-x-factor/
retrieved
10 December 2021
quotation
The term ‘obesity paradox’ is a prime example of weight stigma in the scientific literature,” Jeffrey Hunger, an assistant professor of social psychology at Miami University of Ohio told me when I wrote about medical weight stigma for the July 2020 issue of Scientific American. (English)
facet of
obesity
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MeSH descriptor ID
D000094408
subject named as
Obesity Paradox
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Freebase ID
/m/04gsxv2
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