You're missing the other direction: those people who have insulin resistance and inflammation and aren't clinically obese. https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1

You're missing the other direction: those people who have insulin resistance and inflammation and aren't clinically obese. https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circ.128.suppl_22.A11251 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circ.128.suppl_22.A1... [Metabolic syndrome] doubles the risk of all vascular complications in patients often erroneously considered at lower CVD risk because of their normal BMI.