
Obesity and Stem Cells - Part V, Cancer
Image: Wikipedia INTRODUCTION Over the past several blog posts, we have seen the significant negative effects of obesity. There are also differences between genders with regard to obesity; premenopausal women actually have a protection agains obesity compared to men and postmenopausal women; leukocyte and haematopoietic stem cells have different responses to obesity and these autonomous differences lead to an amplified response in males compared with females.(1) That is to sa