Obesity is a chronic, multifactorial disease characterised by excessive accumulation of adipose tissue to a degree that impairs health, conventionally graded using body mass index and refined by measures of central adiposity. It arises from sustained positive energy balance shaped by genetic, metabolic, endocrine, b…
Obesity is a chronic, multifactorial disease characterised by excessive accumulation of adipose tissue to a degree that impairs health, conventionally graded using body mass index and refined by measures of central adiposity. It arises from sustained positive energy balance shaped by genetic, metabolic, endocrine, behavioural, and environmental factors, and is accompanied by adipose-tissue dysfunction, chronic low-grade inflammation, and insulin resistance. As a major driver of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, cardiovascular disease, certain cancers, and reproductive disturbance, it is a central target of prevention and treatment through lifestyle change, pharmacotherapy, and bariatric intervention. Research in this area examines high-protein supplementation and fat mass in obese adolescents, the identification of insulin-sensitive versus insulin-resistant obese postmenopausal women through surrogate indices, and the anti-inflammatory effects of docosahexaenoic acid in adipose tissue of obese postmenopausal women. Further studies address exercise and irisin in obese women, hirsutism and anthropometry in polycystic ovarian morphology, carotid intima-media thickness in overweight and obese women, food-intake patterns and weight maintenance, improving obesity screening and management in urgent care, and the high prevalence of obesity in a community cohort, alongside mechanistic work on adipose-tissue physiology. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research on obesity and its metabolic consequences.
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