Obesity and diabetes are the most demanding health problems today, and their prevalence,
as well as comorbidities, is on the rise all over the world. As time goes on, both are …

Obesity is associated with many adverse health effects, such as an increased
cardiometabolic risk. Despite higher adiposity for a given BMI, premenopausal women are at …

We are facing a global metabolic health crisis provoked by an obesity epidemic. Here we
report the human gut microbial composition in a population sample of 123 non-obese and …

In high-, middle-and low-income countries, the rising prevalence of obesity is the underlying
cause of numerous health complications and increased mortality. Being a complex and …

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 …

Obesity increases the risks of developing cardiovascular and metabolic diseases and
degrades quality of life, ultimately increasing the risk of death. However, not all forms of …

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that cluster in the first intron of fat mass and
obesity associated (FTO) gene are associated obesity traits in genome-wide association …

Women have more body fat than men, but in contrast to the deleterious metabolic
consequences of the central obesity typical of men, the pear-shaped body fat distribution of …

Obesity is globally prevalent and highly heritable, but its underlying genetic factors remain
largely elusive. To identify genetic loci for obesity susceptibility, we examined associations …

Rigorous organization and quality control (QC) are necessary to facilitate successful
genome-wide association meta-analyses (GWAMAs) of statistics aggregated across multiple …