When more is not worse: Genetic subtypes of obesity challenge conventional risk paradigms.

Yaghootkar, Hanieh · Cell Metab · 2025

review · Level V

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Abstract

Emerging evidence challenges the view of obesity as a uniform metabolic risk. Spotlighting the recent Nature Medicine study by Chami et al.,<sup>1</sup> this piece discusses how "uncoupling" adiposity from its cardiometabolic consequences reveals biologically distinct subtypes of obesity. Integrating imaging and multi-omics offers a promising path toward personalized obesity management and deeper mechanistic insight.

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