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Eighty Years After Vague: Advances in Understanding Ectopic Fat and Metabolic Dysfunction

Key takeaways

This is a review of how fat stored in the wrong places, like the liver or kidneys, causes disease. It explains that when body fat overflows, it can damage organs. This is background information, not a new trial with results.

Who did this work

Caterina Conte (San Raffaele University of Rome) · Priya Sumithran (Alfred Health) · Carel Wynand le Roux (University College Dublin) · Alexander Dimitri Miras (University of Ulster) · Luc Van Gaal (Antwerp University Hospital)

Source

Article · OpenAlex, CKD works · 2026-09-23
https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.70229