Brown Adipose Tissue Activation Is Inversely Related to Central Obesity and Metabolic Parameters in Adult Human

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 10; no. 4; p. e0123795
• Main Authors: Wang, Qidi, Zhang, Min, Xu, Min, Gu, Weiqiong, Xi, Yun, Qi, Lu, Li, Biao, Wang, Weiqing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 20.04.2015; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adipocytes; Adipose tissue; Adipose tissue (brown); Adipose Tissue, Brown - metabolism; Adipose Tissue, Brown - pathology; Adiposity; Adult; Adults; Age; Age Factors; Blood cholesterol; Body fat; Body mass; Body Temperature; Cardiovascular disease; Cholesterol; Confidence Intervals; Diabetes; Female; Females; Geriatrics; Glucose; Health care; High density lipoprotein; Hospitals; Humans; Insulin; Laboratories; Logistic Models; Low temperature; Male; Males; Medical imaging; Medical screening; Metabolic disorders; Middle Aged; Nuclear medicine; Nutrition research; Obesity; Obesity, Abdominal - metabolism; Odds Ratio; Older people; Parameters; Population studies; Robustness (mathematics); Rodents; Thermogenesis; Triglycerides; Tumors; China
• ISSN: 1932-6203; 1932-6203
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123795

Recent studies have shown that adult human possess active brown adipose tissue (BAT), which might be important in affecting obesity. However, the supporting evidence on the relationship between BAT and central obesity and metabolic profile in large population based studies is sparse. We studied 4011...