Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: White adipose tissue celularity is a highly versatile and precocious marker for metabolic status. Fat morphology can be estimated by comparing body fat mass with average fat cell size. Recent studies have shown that adipo-cyte hypertrophy is negatively correlated with dyslipidemia and insulin resistance, independent of body composition.Methods: The study group includes 18 obese patients, with a mean age of 38.76±8.89 years and a mean B...