Biology of upper-body and lower-body adipose tissue-link to whole-body phenotypes.
The distribution of adipose tissue in the body has wide-ranging and reproducible associations with health and disease. Accumulation of adipose tissue in the upper body (abdominal obesity) is associated with the development of cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes mellitus and e...
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Nature Publishing Group
2015
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