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

Consuming fewer calories is largely accepted as a way to improve health and lose weight, but a recently published study in ...

Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), the physiologic inhibitor of tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA), has emerged to an early prominent bridge builder between atherothrombosis and ...

A team sheds new light on the role of marine-source omega-3 supplementation in treating adipose tissue inflammation and reducing the risk for cardiometabolic diseases like type 2 diabetes.

A recent study found that endothelial cells from male adipose tissue showed greater expression of inflammation-related genes, but lower levels of cell proliferation genes than those from females ...

Obesity plays a crucial role in how severely blood vessels are damaged—and this depends on where excessive fat accumulates in ...

Immune cells in adipose tissue . The researchers behind the new study used single-cell and spatial analyses to understand the different immune cell types in adipose tissue and where they are in ...

The study found that obesity-induced adipose tissue inflammation increased the secretion of extracellular vesicles, which may contribute to the detrimental health effects of obesity.

A research team was looking to make a new anti-inflammatory medication when they found some incredible side effects ...

The inflammation connection: Fat as an active tissue The scientific understanding of adipose tissue has evolved dramatically, revealing that fat functions as metabolically active tissue rather ...

SARS-CoV-2 infects adipose tissue, where it can act as an ongoing source of virus replication and inflammation, according to a study that may indicate why obesity has proven to be such a ...

A new study, published in JCI Insight, has uncovered a complex inflammatory response that occurs in fat tissue during obesity progression. In both adults and children, rates of obesity are increasing ...