Sentences with phrase «of abdominal fat tissue»

Antonio Saad, a UTMB fellow in Maternal Fetal Medicine, and his team measured percent of abdominal fat tissue and liver fat using computed tomography, or CT, scanning.

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Researchers also grouped participants into three groups according to abdominal adipose tissue volume and density change; they found that those with greater increases in fat volume and more decreases in fat density had relatively higher incidence of heart disease risk factors.

Dr Kos, a clinician and specialist in adipose tissue physiology and obesity - related disorders, studied the abdominal fat tissue of obese people which had become fibrous or «scarred» in order to identify what regulates this scarring and to look at how to reverse it.

In the human abdominal adipose (fat) tissue of lean individuals, the amounts of Pellino3 are high, but in adipose tissue from obese individuals the levels of Pellino3 fall.

Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center now have pinpointed a major inflammatory role for «natural killer» (NK) immune cells in abdominal fat — a type of tissue strongly implicated in insulin resistance.

«Additionally, we showed that obesity increases the number and activity of NK cells in abdominal fat but not in other tissues,» says Lee, senior author on a paper published online in Cell Metabolism.

This study will examine the effects of a long - term aerobic exercise, resistance exercise, and a combination of both exercise regimens, and the risk for type 2 diabetes, total fatty tissue and abdominal fat in overweight boys and girls.

Inguinal, Umbilical, and Scrotal Hernias: Inguinal Hernia: The condition is the result of abdominal organs, fat or tissue protruding through the inguinal ring.