Identical twins with significant weight differences shed light on the phenomenon of metabolically healthy obesity (EurekAlert, 6 October 2013)

07 Oct 2013


A twin study from Finland, published in Diabetologia, investigates the distribution of and transcriptional pathways in subcutaneous adipose tissue in metabolically healthy and unhealthy obese individuals compared with their lean twins (16 twin pairs in total).

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