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central obesity Abdominal obesity, truncal obesity Obesity defined by an ↑ waist-to-hip ratio, waist-to-thigh ratio, waist circumference, and sagittal abdominal diameter, and linked to an ↑ risk of cardiovascular events. See Body
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Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology and Tullis Tulane Alumni Chair in Diabetes at Tulane University Health Sciences Center, in New Orleans, LA, the Journal covers a range of topics including insulin resistance, central obesity, glucose intolerance, dyslipidemia with elevated triglycerides, predominance of small dense LDL-cholesterol particles, hypertension, endothelial dysfunction, and oxidative stress and inflammation. Johannsson report on the current understanding of how GH, IGF-1, and the metabolic syndrome are related and the ongoing debate over whether a lack of GH causes abdominal fat accumulation or whether central obesity results in a deficiency of GH, in a paper entitled, "The GH/IGF-1 Axis in Obesity: Physiological and Pathological Aspects. Insulin resistance, which is related to central obesity, makes it increasingly difficult for cells to respond to insulin, and ultimately, blood sugar levels rise, leading to diabetes. |
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