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ReviewAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Contribution of Adipose Tissue Oxidative Stress to Obesity-Associated Diabetes Risk and Ethnic Differences: Focus on Women of African Ancestry.

Pamela A Nono Nankam, Télesphore B Nguelefack, Julia H Goedecke, Matthias Blüher

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Review in Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Pamela A Nono NankamHelmholtz Institute for Metabolic, Obesity and Vascular Research (HI-MAG) of the Helmholtz Zentrum München at the University of Leipzig and University Hospital Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Télesphore B NguelefackLaboratory of Animal Physiology and Phytopharmacology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Dschang, Dschang 96, Cameroon.
Julia H GoedeckeNon-Communicable Diseases Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town 19070, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-6795-4771
Matthias BlüherHelmholtz Institute for Metabolic, Obesity and Vascular Research (HI-MAG) of the Helmholtz Zentrum München at the University of Leipzig and University Hospital Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft CRC 1052, Project Nr. 209933838, subproject B1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adipose tissue (AT) storage capacity is central in the maintenance of whole-body homeostasis, especially in obesity states. However, sustained nutrients overflow may dysregulate this function resulting in adipocytes hypertrophy, AT hypoxia, inflammation and oxidative stress. Systemic inflammation may also contribute to the disruption of AT redox equilibrium. AT and systemic oxidative stress have been involved in the development of obesity-associated insulin resistance (IR) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) through several mechanisms. Interestingly, fat accumulation, body fat distribution and the degree of how adiposity translates into cardio-metabolic diseases differ between ethnicities. Populations of African ancestry have a higher prevalence of obesity and higher T2D risk than populations of European ancestry, mainly driven by higher rates among African women. Considering the reported ethnic-specific differences in AT distribution and function and higher levels of systemic oxidative stress markers, oxidative stress is a potential contributor to the higher susceptibility for metabolic diseases in African women. This review summarizes existing evidence supporting this hypothesis while acknowledging a lack of data on AT oxidative stress in relation to IR in Africans, and the potential influence of other ethnicity-related modulators (e.g., genetic-environment interplay, socioeconomic factors) for consideration in future studies with different ethnicities.

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adipose tissueethnicitymetabolic risksobesityoxidative stress

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PMID33921645
PMCPMC8073769

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