Obesity triggered smoldering inflammation as a cause of diabetes.

• Main Author: Wong, Yi Xin.
• Other Authors: Klaus Erik Karjalainen
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52933
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

As the prevalence of obesity in the modern rise, its association with insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes have been a great concern within the biomedical field. The recent discovery that obesity itself causes low-grade chronic inflammation has led researches to start a research to find out the me...