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Article: Some Obese Postmenopausal Women Impervious to Metabolic Disturbances.
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- Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week
- Article date:
- May 26, 2001
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2001 MAY 26 - (NewsRx Network) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A subset of postmenopausal women, despite being obese, are apparently able to avoid the metabolic disturbances such as insulin resistance often associated with obesity.
These women were more likely to have become obese at a younger age and less likely to have visceral body fat compared with obese women with metabolic abnormalities, wrote M. Brochu and colleagues in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
"It is unclear why some obese individuals fail to show traditional risk factors associated with the insulin resistance syndrome despite having a very high ...