Adherence to the Mediterranean diet as a possible additional tool to be used for screening the metabolically unhealthy obesity (MUO) phenotype.

High adherence to MD was associated with MHO phenotype. Moreover, we suggest that a specific cut-off of the PREDIMED score could be an indicator to discriminate patients with MUO/MHO phenotypes and therefore help in identifying patients at higher cardiovascular risk who will require specific dietary intervention.