Managing Adiposity-Related Diseases

Publication Date: February 28, 2024

Key Points

Key Points

  • Among the many conditions caused or worsened by excess adipose tissue (AT), the most prevalent are:
    • Cardiovascular disease (CVD)
    • Elevated blood sugar
    • High blood pressure
    • Dyslipidemia
    • Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD)
    • Cancer
    • Obesity and stress: cause and effect
    • Psychiatric disease
  • These conditions are also largely improved, even prevented, by weight loss.
  • It is therefore recommended that weight loss be an integral part of management whenever excess AT accompanies any of these conditions.

Simplified Mechanism of Obesity, Insulin Resistance, and Metabolic Disease

a “Metabolic flexibility” is the ability of an organ to adapt to changes in energy demand and fuel management from fasting to fed states.

Disease Categories

Disease Catego...

...KEAWAY MESSAGES: Obesity and Diab...


...10 TAKEAWAY MESSAGES: Obesity and Hig...


...f Adult Patients With Overweight or Obesity...


...es Obesity (Adiposopathy) Cause Diabetes?...


...TAKEAWAY MESSAGES: Obesity and CVD Obe...


...opathy (“Sick Fat”) Cardiovascu...


...osopathy (“Sick Fat”) Cardiovascular Disea...


...0 TAKEAWAY MESSAGES: Obesity and Women Obesity...


...OP 10 TAKEAWAY MESSAGES: Obesity and Stre...


...Y MESSAGES: Obesity and Dyslipidemia Th...


...pathic Dyslipidemia: (Hypertriglyceridemia, Sma...


TOP TAKEAWAY MESSAGES: Obesity and MASLD MASLD...


TOP 10 TAKEAWAY MESSAGES: Obesity and Psychiatric...


...MESSAGES: Obesity and Cancer Obesity is the...


...sociated Cancers Head and neck...


...onal Factors that Increase Cancer R...


...Risk Intentional weight loss among...


...ts of Physical Activity in Patients With Ca...