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Bernardo Léo Wajchenberg1, Marcia Nery, Maria Rosaria Cunha, Maria Elizabeth Rossi da Silva.
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The authors analyze insulin resistance, the metabolic syndrome and endothelial dysfunction as consequence of a common antecedent, a low grade inflammation, indicating that in obesity there is a chronically activated inflammatory state of the adipose tissue. Furthermore, the inflammatory signaling is discussed according to the adipose tissue depot, visceral or subcutaneous.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19466206 DOI: 10.1590/s0004-27302009000200005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Arq Bras Endocrinol Metabol ISSN: 0004-2730