Regulation of fat storage via suppressed thermogenesis: a thrifty phenotype that predisposes individuals with catch-up growth to insulin resistance and obesity
- Dulloo, Abdul G. Department of Medicine, Division of Physiology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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2006
Published in:
- Hormone Research. - 2006, vol. 65, no. 3, p. 90-97
English
Catch-up growth during infancy and childhood is increasingly recognized as a major risk factor for later development of insulin-related complications and chronic diseases, namely abdominal obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. As catch-up growth per se is characterized by insulin resistance, hyperinsulinaemia and an accelerated rate of fat storage (i.e., catch-up fat) even... Show more…
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Médecine
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Medicine
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 5823
- DOI 10.1159/000091512
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/300022