Increased plasma fatty acid concentrations may be responsible for many of the metabolic abnormalities associated with abdominal obesity. Excessive visceral fat is associated with insulin resistance and other metabolic risk factors for coronary heart disease. A study reported in this issue of the JCI evaluates the relative contribution of fatty acids released during lipolysis of visceral adipose tissue triglycerides to portal and systemic fatty acid flux in human subjects.
Samuel Klein
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Intrahepatic fat, not visceral fat, is linked with metabolic complications of obesity
E Fabbrini, F Magkos, BS Mohammed, T Pietka, NA Abumrad, BW Patterson, A Okunade, S Klein |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2009 |
Sex Differences in the Relationship between C-Reactive Protein and Body Fat
A Khera, GL Vega, SR Das, C Ayers, DK McGuire, SM Grundy, JA de Lemos |
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism | 2009 |
Visceral and Subcutaneous Adiposity and Adiponectin in Middle-aged Japanese Men: The ERA JUMP Study
Nakamura Y, Sekikawa A, Kadowaki T, Kadota A, Kadowaki S, Maegawa H, Kita Y, Evans RW, Edmundowicz D, Curb JD, Ueshima H |
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) | 2009 |