PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Hoyle, Brian ED - Tchernof, André TI - Abdominal Adipose Tissue Metabolism in Human Ectopic Fat and Cardiometabolic Risk DP - 2013 Dec 01 TA - MD Conference Express PG - 6--7 VI - 13 IP - 16 4099 - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/13/16/6.short 4100 - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/13/16/6.full AB - Visceral obesity is associated with a variety of conditions that increases the risk developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease [Kissebah AH, Krakower GR. Physiol Rev 1994; Després JP, Lemieux I. Nature 2006; Tchernof A, Després JP. Physiol Rev 2013]. This article discusses visceral adipose tissue metabolism and its association with cardiometabolic risk.