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Obesity and Diabetes
Reports summarize obesity and diabetes research from K.L. Spalding and co-authors
July 8th, 2008
According to recent research published in the journal Nature, "Obesity is increasing in an epidemic manner in most countries and constitutes a public health problem by enhancing the risk for cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes(1,2). Owing to the increase in obesity, life expectancy may start to decrease in developed countries for the first time in recent history(3)." "The factors determining fat mass in adult humans are not fully understood, but increased lipid storage in already developed fat cells ( adipocytes) is thought to be most important(4,5). Here we show that adipocyte number is a major determinant for the fat mass in...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-07-08)
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