What characterizes metabolically benign obesity in humans?
Metabolically benign obesity exists in humans, and its phenotype may be more strongly determined by a lack of ectopic liver fat rather than visceral fat.
A metabolically benign obesity that is not accompanied by insulin resistance and early atherosclerosis exists in humans. Furthermore, ectopic fat in the liver may be more important than visceral fat in the determination of such a beneficial phenotype in obesity.
Norbert Stefan (Mon,) studied this question.