For years, scientists have believed that inflammation inevitably increases with age, quietly fuelling diseases like heart ...

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center scientists found that activating fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) ...

Tribune News NetworkDohaSidra Medicine, a member of Qatar Foundation, has contributed to a major international research study published in Nature Metabolism, titled ‘Towards a consensus atlas of human ...

Obesity, defined by a BMI over 30, significantly impacts dermatological health due to excess adipose tissue's endocrine ...

Obesity plays a crucial role in how severely blood vessels are damaged – and this depends on where excessive fat accumulates in the body. This is the finding of a research team from the German Centre ...

In medically indicated weight loss, attention is typically focused on the associated health benefits. However, recent ...

An article published in the journal Nature Metabolism presents an experimental drug that stimulates adipose tissue cells to ...

“Adipose tissue responds to overnutrition by mounting an immune response.” The resulting inflammation induces insulin resistance.

When people gain weight, their adipose tissue expands, which gradually leads to its inflammation, and to insulin resistance. Normal adipose tissue function is disrupted, and it starts to release ...

The findings were published in Journal of Translational Medicine. When people gain weight, their adipose tissue expands, which gradually leads to its inflammation, and to insulin resistance.