Study shows how aging fat cells lead to lifestyle diseases – News-Medical.Net

No matter how much we try and fight it, aging is a part of life. High cholesterol, diabetes, and fatty liver, the collection of conditions referred to as lifestyle diseases, all become more commonplace as we get older.
Interestingly, however, many of these age-related conditions are caused by changes inside adipocytes, the fat cells responsible for storing excess energy.
Now, in a study published in Nature Communications, researchers led by Osaka University have uncovered exactly how these cha…

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