Brown adipose tissue activity on FDG PET/CT is associated with favorable change in lipid profile and reduced risk of diabetes

Conclusions: Patients with BAT activity demonstrated the characteristic traits of lower age, BMI, blood glucose and total cholesterol at baseline, and showed a favorable change in lipid profile on follow-up. The hazard for this group was also lower than for the group without BAT activity in terms of diabetes, further suggesting the role of brown fat in lipoprotein metabolism.

Source: Journal of Nuclear Medicine - May 20, 2019 Category: Nuclear Medicine Authors: Park, S., Park, H., Yoo, I. R., Kim, S. H., O, J. H. Tags: NETs, BAT and All That Source Type: research