Resistin is a protein signaling molecule from the adipokine family, which are substances associated with adipose tissue, immune regulation, and metabolism.
Obesity cannot be explained solely by “excess calories” in the everyday sense: it is associated with the functioning of the nervous system, adipose tissue, intestines, pancreas, liver, muscles, thyroid gland, adrenal glands, and sex glands.
Obesity is a chronic disease in which excess fat tissue can impair organ function, metabolism, vascular system, respiration, liver, joints, reproductive function, and mental health.
In the strict international sense, metabolic syndrome does not have official stages similar to those of cancer, chronic kidney disease, or hypertension.
Metabolic syndrome is not a single disease, but a combination of several interrelated risk factors: abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, elevated triglycerides, low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and elevated fasting glucose.
Metabolic syndrome is a combination of several interrelated disorders: increased waist circumference, high blood pressure, elevated triglycerides, low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and elevated fasting glucose.
Visceral obesity is the excess accumulation of fat tissue inside the abdominal cavity, around the intestines, liver, pancreas and other internal organs.
