Obesity as a clinical and public health problem: Is there a need for a new definition based on lipotoxicity effects?
Authors:
- Thorkild I.A. SørensenTSThorkild I.A. Sørensen
- Sam VirtueSVSam Virtue
- Antonio Vidal-PuigAVAntonio Vidal-Puig
- 1 March 2010
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids
- Vol. 1801 (3) , 400-404
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