Obesity is a chronic disease of multifactorial origin and can be defined as an increase in the
accumulation of body fat. Adipose tissue is not only a triglyceride storage organ, but studies …

Perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT), long assumed to be nothing more than vessel-
supporting connective tissue, is now understood to be an important, active component of the …

The bacterial composition of the human fecal microbiome is influenced by many lifestyle
factors, notably diet. It is less clear, however, what role host genetics plays in dictating the …

A growing body of evidence indicates that obesity is strongly and independently associated
with adverse outcomes of COVID-19, including death. By combining emerging knowledge of …

Recent evidence demonstrates important maternal effects on an offspring's risk of
developing metabolic disease. These effects extend across the full range of maternal …

The present document is an update of the 2003 American Heart Association Scientific
Statement on Obesity, Insulin Resistance, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Risk in Children …

With the many recent advances in the biomedical world, vast changes are taking place in
our growing knowledge of the physiological aspects of almost all the tissues and organs of …

Liver and serum metabolites of obese and lean mice fed on high fat or normal diets were
analyzed using ultraperformance liquid chromatography− quadrupole-time-of-flight mass …

The metabolic syndrome (MS) represents a cluster of cardiovascular (CV) risk factors
associated to CV disease and type 2 diabetes. It is still under debate whether MS is a mere …

Ceretain treatments may lead to significant changes in adipocytokine levels. For example
include beta-2 adrenoreceptor agonists, thiazolidinediones as well as androgens lead to …