Study Shows Benefits Of Hormone Found In Fat Tissue

It’s called the obesity paradox. Although obese people are more apt to suffer from inflammatory diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, and stroke, they are also more likely to survive a major attack caused by one of those conditions. University of Illinois scientists Gregory Freund and Christina Sherry shed light on the reasons for this phenomenon in a study in this month’s issue of Endocrinology.

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Filed under: Endocrinology on March 8th, 2009