Health
What is Brown Fat and how it protects your heart – Times of India
Brown fat, also known as brown adipose tissue, helps maintain your body temperature when you get too cold.
Published in the journal Nature Medicine, the study confirms and expands the health benefits of brown fat suggested by previous studies. For the study, the researchers reviewed 130,000 PET scans from more than 52,000 patients and found the presence of brown fat in nearly 10 per cent of individuals. Several common and chronic diseases were less prevalent among people with detectable brown fat. For example, only 4.6 per cent had Type-2 diabetes, compared with 9.5 per cent of people who did not have…
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