What have human experimental overfeeding studies taught us about adipose tissue expansion and susceptibility to obesity and metabolic complications?

International Journal of Obesity

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 853-865

  Cuthbertson, D J ^a,b   Steele, T ^a   Wilding, J P ^a,b   Halford, J C ^b   Harrold, J A ^b   Hamer, M ^c   Karpe, F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AINTREE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTOKINE; GASTROINTESTINAL HORMONE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ACTIVE ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ETHNICITY; FAMILY HISTORY; FAT INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; GENDER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLUTEOFEMORAL ADIPOSE TISSUE; HUMAN; INTRAPERITONEAL FAT; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID STORAGE; LIVER TISSUE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MACRONUTRIENT; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METABOLIC DISORDER; METABOLISM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OVERNUTRITION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STUDY DESIGN; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); THERMOGENESIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE EXPANSION; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TOTAL ENERGY EXPENDITURE; TWIN STUDY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT GAIN; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; INSULIN RESISTANCE; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADIPOSITY; BODY COMPOSITION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE; OBESITY; OVERNUTRITION; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TRIGLYCERIDES; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 85016091855     PISSN: 03070565     EISSN: 14765497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2017.4     Document Type: Review

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