Disorders like diabetes and obesity have reached pandemic proportions globally. However,
this problem is a little different in some tropical countries especially in the south Asian …

The thin-fat phenotype and global metabolic disease risk : Current Opinion in Clinical
Nutrition & Metabolic Care The thin-fat phenotype and global metabolic disease risk …

Susceptibility to impaired metabolic health in relation to obesity is not necessarily mediated
by overall fatness, but is largely dependent on the distribution of body fat and the ability to …

Obesity is a heterogeneous condition; thus, metabolic abnormalities and cardiometabolic
risk vary among obese individuals, with a significant proportion considered to be …

Purpose Obesity has attained pandemic proportions across the world, and its prevalence in
developing countries is also on the rise. Nevertheless, there is still a large gap in …

High body fat in apparently lean individuals is a commonly described phenotype in
individuals of Asian descent, but very limited consolidated scientific literature is available on …

Obesity has become a major health problem worldwide. To date, more than 25 different
syndromic forms of obesity are known in which one (monogenic) or multiple (polygenic) …

Context Monogenic obesity is a rare form of obesity due to pathogenic variants in genes
implicated in the leptin–melanocortin signaling pathway and accounts for around 5% of …

In this thematic issue on phenotyping the obesities, prominent international experts offer an
insightful and comprehensive collection of articles covering the current knowledge in the …

Genetic influences on the determination of human fat mass are profound and powerful, a
statement that does not conflict with the obvious influence of environmental factors that drive …