The metabolic syndrome, by definition, is not a disease but is a clustering of individual
metabolic risk factors including abdominal obesity, hyperglycemia, hypertriglyceridemia …

Abdominal obesity may be defined as excess deposits of fat in the abdominal region. It is a
common health condition seen in South Asians and is positively related to non …

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of death and disability in India. The
CVD epidemic in Indians is characterized by a higher relative risk burden, an earlier age of …

Excess intra-abdominal adipose tissue accumulation, often termed visceral obesity, is part of
a phenotype including dysfunctional subcutaneous adipose tissue expansion and ectopic …

Background Elderly people with low lean and high fat mass, are diagnosed with sarcopenic
obesity (SO), and often have poor clinical outcomes. This study aimed to explore the …

Obesity plays relevant pathophysiological role in the development of health problems,
arising as result of complex interaction of genetic, nutritional, and metabolic factors. Due to …

Definitions for overweight and obesity are universally applied using body mass index (BMI),
based on morbidity and mortality data derived from white populations. However, several …

Metabolic syndrome poses a major threat on human health affecting the quality of life.
Adipose tissue is an important organ which plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of …

Accurate assessment of fat intake is essential to examine the relationships between diet and
disease risk but the process of estimating individual intakes of fat quality by dietary …

Background The prevalence of metabolic syndrome varies among populations with different
ethnicities. Asian populations develop metabolic complications at lower amounts of …