Is visceral fat reduction necessary to favour metabolic changes in the liver?
As excess body weight constitutes a major health problem, it is now important for hepatologists to weigh risk factors that lead to insulin resistance and hepatic steatosis. This mini-review focuses on the type of bodily fat distribution that determines the ectopic fat storage into the liver in overweight or obese people. Although obesity is closely associated with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, the excess of visceral fat storage is reckoned to be just as or even more important.
Center of Obesity and Eating Disorder, Stella Maris Mediterraneo Foundation Chiaromonte, Potenza, Italy.
Carmine
C
Finelli
Giovanni
G
Tarantino
D050218:Body Fat Distribution; D005234:Fatty Liver / Q000208:ethnology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000235:genetics; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D006801:Humans; D050152:Intra-Abdominal Fat / Q000503:physiopathology*; D065626:Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications* / Q000208:ethnology / Q000235:genetics; D012727:Sex Characteristics