[Abdominal obesity and diabetes].

Abstract excerpt

It has been known for about 50 years that different obesity phenotypes do exist. Nonetheless, how abdominal, namely visceral, obesity is burdened by metabolic and cardiovascular diseases has been established only in recent years. The association between abdominal obesity and diabetes, which is well documented, has been mainly explained by the lower insulin sensitivity of subjects with excess visceral fat....

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