Obesity has reached epidemic proportions worldwide, posing a significant burden on people’s health and on healthcare systems. It is a major risk factor for ...

Results reveal that weight loss has significant effects on cellular processes that are known to affect metabolic health and ...

He goes on to explain that in people with adipose tissue dysfunction, this can lead to damaged tissue, fibrosis, secretion of proinflammatory and adipogenic molecules that subsequently contribute ...

Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: How Adipose Tissue Works Against Us —Obesity, estrogens, and adipocyte dysfunction all contribute to the development of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).

Experts have announced the identification of a signaling pathway that is operational in intra-abdominal fat, the fat depot that is most strongly tied to obesity-related morbidity.

Psoriasis linked to adipose dysfunction Patients with psoriasis have lower plasma adiponectin, higher plasma leptin levels. Inflammation present in psoriasis may be associated with adipose tissue ...

Adipose dysfunction also linked to steatosis and necroinflammation, study finds Date: October 19, 2010 Source: Wiley - Blackwell Summary: Researchers in Italy provide the evidence that a higher ...

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered that Sfrp5, which refers to secreted frizzled-related protein 5, is an anti-inflammatory adipokine whose expression is ...

Inflammation present in psoriasis may be associated with adipose tissue dysfunction, study findings suggest. “Plasma levels of adiponectin were lower in psoriasis, and this relationship ...