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Microcirculation in obesity: an unexplored domain
Provedor de dados: 42
Autores: Wiernsperger,Nicolas; Nivoit,Pierre; Bouskela,Eliete.
Obesity is traditionally linked to diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Very recent experimental, clinical and epidemiological, sometimes provocative, data challenge this automaticity by showing that not the amount but the distribution of fat is the important determinant. Moderate abdominal fat accumulation may thus be more harmful than even consequent overweight. In view of the worldwide burden of obesity, factors leading to it in children and young adults must urgently be identified. Since obesity is a very complex cardiometabolic situation, this will require to focus investigations on uncomplicated obese subjects and adequate animal models. The recent discovery of intergenerational transmissions of obesity risk factors and also the key role played by...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Cardiovascular disease; Diabetes mellitus; Birth weight; Metabolic syndrome; Leptin.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652007000400005