Recent developments in high-throughput technologies have accelerated the accumulation
of massive amounts of omics data from multiple sources: genome, epigenome …

Introduction Obesity is a disorder characterized by a disproportionate increase in body
weight in relation to height, mainly due to the accumulation of fat, and is considered a …

Background: Obesity is a risk factor for pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Objective: To determine whether obesity is associated with intubation or death …

Obesity is a heterogeneous phenotype that is crudely measured by body mass index (BMI).
There is a need for a more precise yet portable method of phenotyping and categorizing risk …

Microbial exposures and sex hormones exert potent effects on autoimmune diseases, many
of which are more prevalent in women. We demonstrate that early-life microbial exposures …

Objective To highlight the contribution of the gut microbiota to the modulation of host
metabolism by dietary inulin-type fructans (ITF prebiotics) in obese women. Methods A …

The field of metabolomics continues to grow rapidly over the last decade and has been
proven to be a powerful technology in predicting and explaining complex phenotypes in …

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common type of chronic liver disease
worldwide and includes a broad spectrum of histologic phenotypes, ranging from simple …

In the last years, clusterin, a challenging and paradoxical apolipoprotein, has been of
growing interest amongst a rising number of scientists. This enigmatic protein is present in …

Advances in laboratory sciences offer much in the challenge to unravel the complex etiology
of cancer and to therefore provide an evidence‐base for prevention. One area where …