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Brown Adipose Tissue is Associated with Improved Cardiometabolic Health and Regulates Blood Pressure
2020-02-10
Abstract excerpt
White fat stores excess energy, while brown and beige fat dissipate energy as heat 1 . These thermogenic adipose tissues markedly improve glucose and lipid homeostasis in mouse models, though the extent to which brown adipose tissue (BAT) influences metabolic and cardiovascular disease in humans is unclear 2, 3, 4 . Here, we categorized 139,224 18 F-FDG PET/CT scans from 53,475 patients by presence or absence o...
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- Literature Corpus work
- df579996-3778-5759-a2ae-d9e772fc638c
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.02.08.933754
