adiposity

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Professor Marwan El Ghoch of the Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia explains that this limitation makes it difficult for BMI to accurately reflect adiposity.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

"When you have increased fat or adiposity – the term we use in the body – it can cause increased inflammation within the body," McLaughlin told Fox News Digital.

From Fox News • Feb. 11, 2022

Two possible confounders are physical activity and adiposity, they add.

From Forbes • Oct. 1, 2014

In contrast, exercisers lose more fat than dieters and decrease their burden of central adiposity.

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2014

When the adrenals increase in size in childhood, a remarkable triad follows—general hairiness, adiposity and sexual precocity.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.