Alemany, Marià, 1946-2012-02-242012-02-2420110021-972Xhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/22226Obesity, the excessive accumulation of body fat, is a main defining feature of the metabolic syndrome, and overweight is often an early indication of the future severity and development of associated pathologies. There is a graded relationship between the increase in body adipose tissue content and the severity of insulin resistance, hypertension, and altered blood lipids, in addition to a number of additional disturbances in energy, nitrogen, and xenobiotic metabolism.3 p.application/pdfeng(c) The Endocrine Society, 2011ObesitatMetabolismeObesityMetabolisminfo:eu-repo/semantics/article585046info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess