Obesity
Recent findings in obesity described by researchers from Canada, the United States and Germany
Published in Diabetes Week, May 8th, 2006
Study 1: Visceral obesity, not overall obesity, may be the culprit in obesity comorbidities.
"Despite the fact that controversy remains around the underlying pathophysiological processes leading to the development of the metabolic syndrome (insulin resistance and/or hyperinsulinemia versus abdominal obesity), there is increased recognition that abdominal obesity is the most prevalent form of the metabolic syndrome. Although it has been well established that there is a greater prevalence of chronic metabolic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases in...
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