VAT fat may cause pathogenic obesity

Friday, January 11, 2019 - 10:10 in Health & Medicine

VAT, Visceral Adipose Tissue, a kind of fat that accumulates around the abdominal organs, has an important immune function. The body may choose to turn excess fat into FAT not SAT, subcutaneous fat when a fetus is not well nourished and is likely to face disease.

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