ReviewEuropean endocrinology2019
Friendly Fat Theory - Explaining the Paradox of Diabetes and Obesity.
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- Metabolic health's central role in chronic kidney disease progression: a 20-year study of obesity-metabolic phenotype transitions.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Association of predicted fat mass and lean body mass with diabetes: a longitudinal cohort study in an Asian population.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- Association of combined healthy lifestyle with general and abdominal obesity.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- Obesity paradox and heart failure.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Review
- Background characteristics and diabetes remission after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes stratified by BMI: subgroup analysis of J-SMART.Diabetology international · 2021Article
- Evaluation of the left atrial function by two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography in diabetic patients with obesity.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2020Article
- Antidiabetic Effects of Bisamide Derivative of Dicarboxylic Acid in Metabolic Disorders.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Article
- Bisamide Derivative of Dicarboxylic Acid Contributes to Restoration of Testicular Tissue Function and Influences Spermatogonial Stem Cells in Metabolic Disorders.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2020Article
- Glycemic Status and its Determinants among People Living with Type 2 Diabetes Attending NCD clinics of Health and Wellness Centre-Urban Primary Health Centres of Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal.Indian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social MedicineArticle
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Abstract
Obesity has been called the mother of all diseases and, historically, has been strongly linked to diabetes. However, there are still some paradoxes that exist in diabetes epidemiology and obesity and no unifying hypothesis has been proposed to explain these paradoxical phenomena. Despite the ever-increasing prevalence of both obesity and diabetes, differential relationships exist between diabetes and the extent of obesity in various different ethnic groups. In addition, people with a higher body mass index have been shown to have an improved survival advantage in terms of chronic diabetes complications, especially cardiovascular complications. This narrative review attempts to explain these paradoxical and complex relationships with a single unifying theory. We propose that adipocytes are actually friends of the human body to prevent the occurrence of diabetes and also help in mitigating the complications of diabetes. Adipose tissue actually acts as a reservoir of free fatty acids, responsible for insulin resistance, and prevents their overflow into insulin-sensitive tissues and, therefore, friendly fat theory.
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