Pathogenic obesity and nutraceuticals
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Pathogenic obesity and nutraceuticals.
Over a decade of intense research in the field of obesity has led to the knowledge that chronic, excessive adipose tissue expansion leads to an increase in the risk for CVD, type 2 diabetes mellitus and cancer. This is primarily thought to stem from the low-grade, systemic inflammatory response syndrome that characterises adipose tissue in obesity, and this itself is thought to arise from the c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0029-6651,1475-2719
DOI: 10.1017/s0029665111001662