Obesity, adipokines and their relationship with insulin resistance

Obesity is one of the main health problems worldwide. It a disease that associated with excessive food consumption, although it also process chronic inflammation and group disorders known as metabolic syndrome. Some most distinctive characteristics obesity are individual's adipocytes hypertrophied, have an irregular adipokine secretion profile, increased recruitment inflammatory cells, altered homeostasis; which eventually results in development various important pathologies or conditions, such insulin resistance mitochondrial dysfunction. This review aims to present current knowledge on adipose tissue obesity.