Diagnosing high-risk fat

All fat is not created equal. Scientists at Israel’s Ben Gurion University have devised a non-surgical miRNA biomarker biopsy test for visceral adipose tissue (VAT) inflammation, which is derived from a specific type of body fat that poses a high cardio-metabolic risk in obese individuals.

https://www.israel21c.org/if-your-fat-is-vat-fat-you-could-be-at-higher-risk/

https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article-abstract/109/3/858/7274810

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