From Obesity to Diabetes: The Role of the Adipose Organ.
Handb Exp Pharmacol
; 274: 75-92, 2022.
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| ID: mdl-35044536
ABSTRACT
Obesity is a complex, multifactorial, and relapsing disease whose prevalence has tripled during the last decades and whose incidence is expected to further increase. For these reasons, obesity is considered as a real pandemic, deeply burdening the global health-care systems. From a pathophysiological standpoint obesity is the result of a chronic-positive energy balance which in turn leads to an excessive accumulation of lipids, not only within the adipose organ, but also in different cytotypes, a phenomenon leading to lipotoxicity that deeply compromises several cellular and organs functions. Obesity is therefore associated with over 200 medical complications, including insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and represents the fifth leading cause of death worldwide. In this review, we describe the main pathophysiological mechanisms linking obesity-induced adipose organ dysfunction to insulin resistance and T2DM.
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Resistência à Insulina
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Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2
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Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Humans
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En
Ano de publicação:
2022
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Article