Abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue: a protective fat depot?

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Published in Diabetes Care on February 24, 2009

Authors

Stacy A Porter1, Joseph M Massaro, Udo Hoffmann, Ramachandran S Vasan, Christopher J O'Donnel, Caroline S Fox

Author Affiliations

1: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA.

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