Multiple Symmetric Lipomatosis: A Paradigm of Metabolically Innocent Obesity?: Response to Harsch, Schahin, and Wiedmann
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Multiple symmetric lipomatosis: a paradigm of metabolically innocent obesity? Response to Haap et al.
E xcessive fat storage (obesity) is associated with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes (1). Paradoxically, inability to store fat (lipodystrophy) is also associated with insulin resistance (2). In both obesity and lipodystrophy, the adipocyte’s storage capacity is exceeded and lipids accumulate in liver, muscle, and -cells. Hypothetically, if adipose tissue had an intrinsic propensity to pr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Diabetes Care
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0149-5992,1935-5548
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.27.7.1850