Obesity is the most extended metabolic alteration worldwide increasing the risk for the
development of cardiometabolic alterations such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and …

Objective: We assessed the degree of misclassification on the diagnosis of obesity using
BMI as compared with direct body fat percentage (BF%) determination and compared the …

The prevalence of non-obese type 2 diabetes in Asians is up to 50%. This review aims to
summarize the role of regional fat in the development of insulin resistance and …

OBJECTIVE—Previous reports of an association between low testosterone levels and
diabetes risk were often confounded by covariation of sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) …

Background Although the relationship between serum uric acid (SUA) and adiposity is well
established, the direction of the causality is still unclear in the presence of conflicting …

Increased visceral adiposity is a pivotal component of the metabolic syndrome. Differential
gene expression patterns of fat-derived peptides (FDPs) in visceral fat and subcutaneous fat …

Background Magnesium plays a role in glucose and insulin homeostasis and evidence
suggests that magnesium intake is associated with insulin resistance (IR). However, data is …

Type 2 diabetes in Asia occurs largely in the absence of obesity. The metabolically obese
normal-weight (MONW) phenotype refers to lean subjects with metabolic dysfunction that is …

Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is considered a threat to public health due to its rapid growing
prevalence worldwide. MetS can result from interrelated metabolic abnormalities including …

To determine the relationships of body fat distribution and insulin sensitivity and
cardiovascular risk factors in lean and obese Thai type 2 diabetic women, 9 lean and 11 …