Although obesity is typically associated with metabolic dysfunction and cardiometabolic
diseases, some people with obesity are protected from many of the adverse metabolic …

Background This is an overview of the mechanisms of obesity and its relation to
cardiovascular risks, describing the available treatment options to manage this condition …

Increase in prevalence of obesity has become a worldwide major health problem in adults,
as well as among children and adolescents. Furthermore, total adiposity and truncal …

A wealth of clinical and epidemiological evidence has linked obesity to a broad spectrum of
cardiovascular diseases (CVD) including coronary heart disease, heart failure …

Objective To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies of body mass
index (BMI) and the risk of all cause mortality, and to clarify the shape and the nadir of the …

Obesity is the most extended metabolic alteration worldwide increasing the risk for the
development of cardiometabolic alterations such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and …

The pro-inflammatory state of the visceral adipose tissue (VAT) is supposed to accelerate
cardiovascular (CV) and metabolic diseases in obese subjects. Some studies have recently …

Background: Recent interest has focused on a unique subgroup of overweight and obese
individuals who have normal metabolic features despite increased adiposity. Normal-weight …

An improved understanding of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease epidemiology would lead to
identification of individuals at high risk of developing chronic liver disease and extra-hepatic …

Obesity has become a worldwide epidemic that poses substantial health problems for both
individuals and society. However, a proportion of obese individuals might not be at an …