Endocrine Abstracts

Activated brown adipose tissue (BAT) combusts high amounts of intracellular lipids into heat. In the past few years, we have investigated the consequences of BAT activation for lipid metabolism and cardiometabolic health. Initially, we showed that South Asians, a population characterized by dyslipidemia and prone to develop type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease compared to white Caucasians, have low BAT activity correlating with low energy expenditure (Lancet Diab Endocri...