Body weight and body mass index alone are not enough to predict whether someone will develop a metabolic disease. A new atlas of cells in fat tissue could help to explain why some overweight people ...

As many as 40% of Americans are obese, putting them at an increased risk for high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke, heart disease and certain cancers, according to the CDC. New research from the ...

Recent advances in single-cell and single-nucleus transcriptomics have provided new insights into the complexity of fat ...

Although obese individuals are at greater risk of diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol, not all obese people ...

Researchers at the, Riverside, backed by a substantial NIH grant, are pioneering a study on the unique immune responses to ...

Pioglitazone was associated with a lower risk of developing skin ulcers in patients with Werner disease in a Japanese study, ...

Ozempic and Wegovy do the same thing as GLP-1 would normally do for you — but to enable them to treat diabetes and obesity, ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than two in five American adults have obesity, a common and costly chronic disease. Linked to chronic conditions like type 2 diabetes ...

Visceral adipose tissue (VAT) significantly contributes to complications associated with obesity. Reducing adipose tissue accumulation can improves inflammation. However, it is still unknown how the ...

We now know that adipose tissue body fat, in addition to storing energy, plays a crucial role in the management of that energy by the body. Adipose tissue is a complex organ that acts as a ...