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Thomas 2012 Nutr Res Rev

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Thomas EL, Frost G, Taylor-Robinson SD, Bell JD (2012) Excess body fat in obese and normal-weight subjects. Nutr Res Rev 25:150–61.

Β» PMID: 22625426 Open Access

Thomas EL, Frost G, Taylor-Robinson SD, Bell JD (2012) Nutr Res Rev

Abstract: Excess body adiposity, especially abdominal obesity and ectopic fat accumulation, are key risk factors in the development of a number of chronic diseases. The advent of in vivo imaging methodologies that allow direct assessment of total body fat and its distribution have been pivotal in this process. They have helped to identify a number of sub-phenotypes in the general population whose metabolic risk factors are not commensurate with their BMI. At least two such sub-phenotypes have been identified: subjects with normal BMI, but excess intra-abdominal (visceral) fat (with or without increased ectopic fat) and subjects with elevated BMI (> 25 kg/m(2)) but low visceral and ectopic fat. The former sub-phenotype is associated with adverse metabolic profiles, while the latter is associated with a metabolically normal phenotype, despite a high BMI. Here, examples of these phenotypes are presented and the value of carrying out enhanced phenotypical characterisation of subjects in interventional studies discussed.

β€’ Bioblast editor: Gnaiger E


Labels: MiParea: Patients  Pathology: Obesity 

Organism: Human  Tissue;cell: Fat  Preparation: Intact organism 




BMI, Fat, Comorbidity