Population
Morbidly obese individuals who are insulin-resistant or paradoxically insulin-sensitive, and non-obese…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
Loading...
May stratify morbid obesity by insulin resistance via adipose inflammation; hypothesis-generating and requires longitudinal confirmation before clinical use.
Insulin-sensitive morbidly obese individuals lack the visceral adipose tissue inflammatory response (elevated IL-6, IL-1beta, ERK, NF-kappaB) that characterizes insulin-resistant morbidly obese patients.
Barbarroja et al. (2010) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched 5 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context: