Consuming a high-fat diet can lead to a variety of health problems—not only weight gain but also an increased risk of diabetes and other chronic diseases. At the cellular level, hundreds of changes ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists led by Joseph Bass, MD, Ph.D., the Charles F. Kettering Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism and director of the Center for Diabetes and Metabolism, have ...

CINCINNATI—Cardiac researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have found a new cellular pathway that could help in developing therapeutic treatments for obesity-related disorders, like diabetes ...

Consumption of high-caloric diets contributes to the alarming number of overweight and obese individuals worldwide, which in turn leads to several diseases and multiple organ dysfunction. Not only has ...

Metabo-oncology is an emerging interdisciplinary field at the intersection of oncology, metabolism, and obesity research. Epidemiological studies have ...

For decades, Body Mass Index (BMI) has been the standard measurement used to assess obesity risk. But growing evidence ...

Impact of age on range adipose tissue cellular and molecular composition, which can be detected at middle age. The cause of age-related change in adipose tissue is complicated, ranging from external ...

People with obesity and type 2 diabetes are at high risk of blood vessel damage. This risk depends not only on the genes a ...