Point: Visceral Adiposity Is Causally Related to Insulin Resistance

The relationship between obesity and insulin resistance, while well recognized for many years, has nonetheless been confusing since not all obese individuals have insulin resistance (1) and because insulin resistance occurs in individuals who have BMIs that are within the normal or mildly overweight categories (2). Early attempts to understand the relationships between obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease focused on the...