title: 'Adipaging': ageing and obesity share biological hallmarks related to a dysfunctional adipose tissue.
abstract: The increasing ageing of our societies is accompanied by a pandemic of obesity and related cardiometabolic disorders. Progressive dysfunction of the white adipose tissue is increasingly recognized as an important hallmark of the ageing process, which in turn contributes to metabolic alterations, multi-organ damage and a systemic pro-inflammatory state ('inflammageing'). On the other hand, obesity, the paradigm of adipose tissue dysfunction, shares numerous biological similarities with the normal ageing process such as chronic inflammation and multi-system alterations. Accordingly, understanding the interplay between accelerated ageing related to obesity and adipose tissue dysfunction is critical to gain insight into the ageing process in general as well as into the pathophysiology of obesity and other related conditions. Here we postulate the concept of 'adipaging' to illustrate the common links between ageing and obesity and the fact that, to a great extent, obese adults are prematurely aged individuals.
authors.affiliation: Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Laura M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Pérez
authors.affiliation: Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain.|Research Institute Hospital 12 de Octubre ('i+12'), Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Helios
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pareja-Galeano
authors.affiliation: Research Institute Hospital 12 de Octubre ('i+12'), Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Fabián
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sanchis-Gomar
authors.affiliation: 2E Science, Robbio (PV), Italy.
authors.forename: Enzo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Emanuele
authors.affiliation: Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain.|Research Institute Hospital 12 de Octubre ('i+12'), Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Alejandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lucia
authors.affiliation: Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain.|Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Beatriz G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Gálvez
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue; D000375:Aging; D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation; D009765:Obesity