Macrophage function in adipose tissue homeostasis and metabolic inflammation

T Chavakis, VI Alexaki, AW Ferrante Jr - Nature Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Obesity-related metabolic organ inflammation contributes to cardiometabolic disorders. In
obese individuals, changes in lipid fluxes and storage elicit immune responses in the …

Pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus

U Galicia-Garcia, A Benito-Vicente, S Jebari… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM), one of the most common metabolic disorders, is caused
by a combination of two primary factors: defective insulin secretion by pancreatic β-cells and …

Metabolic inflammation and insulin resistance in obesity

H Wu, CM Ballantyne - Circulation research, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Obesity is becoming an epidemic in the United States and worldwide and increases risk for
many diseases, particularly insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular …

Cellular and molecular pathobiology of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

S Mishra, DA Kass - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2021 - nature.com
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) affects half of all patients with heart
failure worldwide, is increasing in prevalence, confers substantial morbidity and mortality …

Obesity cardiomyopathy: evidence, mechanisms, and therapeutic implications

J Ren, NN Wu, S Wang, JR Sowers… - Physiological …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
The prevalence of heart failure is on the rise and imposes a major health threat, in part, due
to the rapidly increased prevalence of overweight and obesity. To this point …

Metabolic syndrome pathophysiology and predisposing factors

A Bovolini, J Garcia, MA Andrade… - International journal of …, 2021 - thieme-connect.com
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of cardiometabolic risk factors with high prevalence
among adult populations and elevated costs for public health systems worldwide. Despite …

Obesity and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: new insights and pathophysiological targets

BA Borlaug, MD Jensen, DW Kitzman… - Cardiovascular …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Obesity and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) represent two
intermingling epidemics driving perhaps the greatest unmet health problem in …

The many actions of insulin in skeletal muscle, the paramount tissue determining glycemia

L Sylow, VL Tokarz, EA Richter, A Klip - Cell Metabolism, 2021 - cell.com
As the principal tissue for insulin-stimulated glucose disposal, skeletal muscle is a primary
driver of whole-body glycemic control. Skeletal muscle also uniquely responds to muscle …

Deciphering the “obesity paradox” in the elderly: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of sarcopenic obesity

C Liu, PY Wong, YL Chung, SKH Chow… - Obesity …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aging and obesity are two global concerns in public health. Sarcopenic obesity (SO),
defined as the combination of age‐related sarcopenia and obesity, has become a pressing …

Chronic tissue inflammation and metabolic disease

YS Lee, J Olefsky - Genes & development, 2021 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Obesity is the most common cause of insulin resistance, and the current obesity epidemic is
driving a parallel rise in the incidence of T2DM. It is now widely recognized that chronic …