Ethnic Differences in Body Fat Deposition and Liver Fat Content in Two UK-Based Cohorts.

CONCLUSIONS: Our data, consistent across two independent UK-based cohorts, present a limited number of ethnic differences in the distribution of body fat depots associated with metabolic disease. These results suggest that the ethnic variation in susceptibility to features of the metabolic syndrome may not arise from differences in body fat.
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Source: Obesity - September 15, 2020 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Authors: Alenaini W, Parkinson JRC, McCarthy JP, Goldstone AP, Wilman HR, Banerjee R, Yaghootkar H, Bell JD, Thomas EL Tags: Obesity (Silver Spring) Source Type: research