Endocrine Abstracts

In the 1980s the concept, that some individuals with normal weight (Metabolically Obese, Normal-Weight) have disturbances of metabolism, related to obesity was proposed. It is known, that obesity promotes atheromatosis by various mechanism, inter alia due to excess of inflammatory markers. This problem however, was not investigated in non-obese subjects.We analyzed anthropometric variables, body fat distribution by DXA and serum CRP, Il-6 and Il-18 in 43...