Northwestern Medicine scientists led by Joseph Bass, MD, Ph.D., the Charles F. Kettering Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism and director of the Center for Diabetes and Metabolism, have ...

Consuming a high-fat diet can lead to a variety of health problems—not only weight gain but also an increased risk of diabetes and other chronic diseases. At the cellular level, hundreds of changes ...

CINCINNATI—Cardiac researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have found a new cellular pathway that could help in developing therapeutic treatments for obesity-related disorders, like diabetes ...

Visceral adiposity refers to the accumulation of fat within the abdominal cavity, surrounding internal organs, and is a recognised driver of cardiometabolic dysfunction. Unlike subcutaneous fat, ...