The double burden of malnutrition: aetiological pathways and consequences for health

JC Wells, AL Sawaya, R Wibaek, M Mwangome… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Malnutrition has historically been researched and addressed within two distinct silos,
focusing either on undernutrition, food insecurity, and micronutrient deficiencies, or on …

MAFLD: a consensus-driven proposed nomenclature for metabolic associated fatty liver disease

M Eslam, AJ Sanyal, J George, A Sanyal… - Gastroenterology, 2020 - Elsevier
Fatty liver associated with metabolic dysfunction is common, affects a quarter of the
population, and has no approved drug therapy. Although pharmacotherapies are in …

The Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of metabolic associated fatty liver disease

M Eslam, SK Sarin, VWS Wong, JG Fan… - Hepatology …, 2020 - Springer
Metabolic associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) is the principal worldwide cause of liver
disease and affects nearly a quarter of the global population. The objective of this work was …

The Singapore national precision medicine strategy

E Wong, N Bertin, M Hebrard, R Tirado-Magallanes… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Precision medicine promises to transform healthcare for groups and individuals through
early disease detection, refining diagnoses and tailoring treatments. Analysis of large-scale …

Relationships between rodent white adipose fat pads and human white adipose fat depots

DE Chusyd, D Wang, DM Huffman, TR Nagy - Frontiers in nutrition, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The objective of this review was to compare and contrast the physiological and metabolic
profiles of rodent white adipose fat pads with white adipose fat depots in humans. Human fat …

The role of obesity-induced perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) dysfunction in vascular homeostasis

A Stanek, K Brożyna-Tkaczyk, W Myśliński - Nutrients, 2021 - mdpi.com
Perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) is an additional special type of adipose tissue
surrounding blood vessels. Under physiological conditions, PVAT plays a significant role in …

Obesity, adiposity, and dyslipidemia: a consensus statement from the National Lipid Association

HE Bays, PP Toth, PM Kris-Etherton, N Abate… - Journal of clinical …, 2013 - Elsevier
The term “fat” may refer to lipids as well as the cells and tissue that store lipid (ie, adipocytes
and adipose tissue).“Lipid” is derived from “lipos,” which refers to animal fat or vegetable oil …

[HTML][HTML] Adipose tissue: physiology to metabolic dysfunction

AJ Richard, U White, CM Elks, JM Stephens - Endotext [Internet], 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Like the obesity epidemic, our understanding of adipocytes and adipose tissue is
expanding. Just in the past decade, substantial advances have led to new insights into the …

Childhood obesity in developing countries: epidemiology, determinants, and prevention

N Gupta, K Goel, P Shah, A Misra - Endocrine reviews, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Rapidly changing dietary practices and a sedentary lifestyle have led to increasing
prevalence of childhood obesity (5–19 yr) in developing countries recently: 41.8% in Mexico …

The cardiometabolic health alliance: working toward a new care model for the metabolic syndrome

LS Sperling, JI Mechanick, IJ Neeland… - Journal of the American …, 2015 - jacc.org
Abstract The Cardiometabolic Think Tank was convened on June 20, 2014, in Washington,
DC, as a “call to action” activity focused on defining new patient care models and …