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Circulating Unsaturated Fatty Acids Delineate the Metabolic Status of Obese Individuals.
EBioMedicine - 1 Oct 2015
Ni Yan, Zhao Linjing, Yu Haoyong, Ma Xiaojing, Bao Yuqian, Rajani Cynthia, Loo Lenora W M, Shvetsov Yurii B, Yu Herbert, Chen Tianlu, Zhang Yinan, Wang Congrong, Hu Cheng, Su Mingming, Xie Guoxiang, Zhao Aihua, Jia Wei, Jia Weiping
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Obesity is not a homogeneous condition across individuals since about 25-40% of obese individuals can maintain healthy status with no apparent signs of metabolic complications. The simple anthropometric measure of body mass index does not always reflect the biological effects of excessive body fat on health, thus additional molecular characterizations of obese phenotypes are needed to assess the risk...
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