title: Nutrition and metabolic correlates of obesity and inflammation: clinical considerations.
abstract: Since 1980, the global prevalence of obesity has doubled; in the United States, it has almost tripled. Billions of people are overweight and obese; the WHO reports that >65% of the world's population die of diseases related to overweight rather than underweight. Obesity is a complex disease that can be studied from "metropolis to metabolite"—that is, beginning at the policy and the population level through epidemiology and intervention studies; to bench work including preclinical models, tissue, and cell culture studies; to biochemical assays; and to metabolomics. Metabolomics is the next research frontier because it provides a real-time snapshot of biochemical building blocks and products of cellular processes. This report comments on practical considerations when conducting metabolomics research. The pros and cons and important study design concerns are addressed to aid in increasing metabolomics research in the United States. The link between metabolism and inflammation is an understudied phenomenon that has great potential to transform our understanding of immunometabolism in obesity, diabetes, cancer, and other diseases; metabolomics promises to be an important tool in understanding the complex relations between factors contributing to such diseases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, and.
authors.forename: Amy R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.affiliation: Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, and School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC liza.makowski@unc.edu.
authors.forename: Liza
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Makowski
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000639:trends; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D004032:Diet / Q000009:adverse effects*; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D007109:Immunity; D055432:Metabolomics / Q000639:trends; D008967:Molecular Biology / Q000639:trends; D052756:Nutritional Sciences / Q000639:trends; D009765:Obesity / Q000209:etiology / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000628:therapy; D050177:Overweight / Q000209:etiology / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000628:therapy; D000078329:Workforce
keywords: diabetes; high-fat diet; macrophage; metabolomics; obesity
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