High Circulating Triglycerides Are Most Commonly a Marker of Ectopic Fat Accumulation: Connecting the Clues to Advance Lifestyle Interventions

Understanding the mechanisms of reversal of type 2 diabetes

Taylor, R., Al-Mrabeh, A., & Sattar, N. (2019) · The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology · doi:10.1016/s2213-8587(19)30076-2 · Cited by 299 · see citing works

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and risk of incident acute myocardial infarction and stroke: findings from matched cohort study of 18 million European adults

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Serial Metabolic Measurements and Conversion to Type 2 Diabetes in the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study

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Management of Obesity in Cardiovascular Practice

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Comparison of the Relative Contributions of Intra‐Abdominal and Liver Fat to Components of the Metabolic Syndrome

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Definition and diagnostic criteria of clinical obesity

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Obesity and cardiovascular disease: mechanistic insights and management strategies. A joint position paper by the World Heart Federation and World Obesity Federation

Lopez-Jimenez, F., Almahmeed, W., Bays, H., Cuevas, A., Di Angelantonio, E., le Roux, C. W., Sattar, N., Sun, M. C., Wittert, G., Pinto, F. J., et al. (2022) · European Journal of Preventive Cardiology · doi:10.1093/eurjpc/zwac187 · Cited by 362 · see citing works

Cardiovascular and Kidney Risks in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes: Contemporary Understanding With Greater Emphasis on Excess Adiposity

Sattar, N., Presslie, C., Rutter, M. K., & McGuire, D. K. (2024) · Diabetes Care · doi:10.2337/dci23-0041 · Cited by 70 · see citing works

Impact of intentional weight loss in cardiometabolic disease: what we know about timing of benefits on differing outcomes?

Sattar, N., Deanfield, J., & Delles, C. (2024) · Cardiovascular Research · doi:10.1093/cvr/cvac186 · Cited by 20 · see citing works

Effects of intermittent fasting combined with physical exercise on cardiometabolic outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical studies

Kazeminasab, F., Baharlooie, M., Karimi, B., Mokhtari, K., Rosenkranz, S. K., & Santos, H. O. (2023) · Nutrition Reviews · doi:10.1093/nutrit/nuad155 · Cited by 21 · see citing works

Metabolic-associated fatty liver disease increases the risk of end-stage renal disease in patients with biopsy-confirmed diabetic nephropathy: a propensity-matched cohort study

Zou, Y., Zhao, L., Zhang, J., Wang, Y., Wu, Y., Ren, H., Wang, T., Zhao, Y., Xu, H., Li, L., et al. (2022) · Acta Diabetologica · doi:10.1007/s00592-022-01978-w · Cited by 15 · see citing works

Gut Microbiota Colonization in Early Life Influences Susceptibility to Adulthood Hepatic Lipid Accumulation in High‐Fat‐Diet‐Fed Mice

Zhu, Y., Dong, X., Zhou, H., Li, Z., Wang, B., Song, Y., Liu, Z., Lu, X., Zhang, Y., Huang, Y., et al. (2025) · Advanced Science · doi:10.1002/advs.202412827 · Cited by 7 · see citing works

Adipose Tissue Insulin Resistance in South Asian and Nordic Women after Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

Suntharalingam, A. A., Sharma, A., Sommer, C., Qvigstad, E., Gulseth, H. L., Sollid, S. T., Nermoen, I., Sattar, N. A., Gill, J. M. R., Tannæs, T. M., et al. (2024) · Metabolites · doi:10.3390/metabo14050288 · Cited by 7 · see citing works

Clinical utility of liver function tests for resolution of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease after weight loss in the Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial

Zhyzhneuskaya, S. V., Al‐Mrabeh, A. H., Peters, C., Barnes, A. C., Hollingsworth, K. G., Welsh, P., Sattar, N., Lean, M. E. J., & Taylor, R. (2025) · Diabetic Medicine · doi:10.1111/dme.15462 · Cited by 6 · see citing works

Identifying Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Primary Care: How and for What Benefit?

Schreiner, A. D., & Sattar, N. A. (2023) · Journal of Clinical Medicine · doi:10.3390/jcm12124001 · Cited by 6 · see citing works

The association between glycemic indicators and bone mineral density and osteoporosis: a cross-sectional study

Hou, Z., Wang, H., He, B., Wang, Q., & Gao, Y. (2025) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/s41598-025-12925-4 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Waist, waist-height-ratio vs body mass index and the risks of multiple diseases: a cohort study with replicationPreprint

Ho, F. K. W., Pentti, J., Mika Kivimaki, B., & Sattar, N. A. (2025) · medRxiv · doi:10.1101/2025.10.16.25338152 · Cited by 4 · see citing works

Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Risk Before and After Type 2 Diabetes Onset and the Roles of Ectopic Fat and Ethnic Variation: The 2025 Edwin Bierman Award Lecture

Sattar, N. A. (2025) · Diabetes · doi:10.2337/dbi25-0025 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Non-invasive continuous lipid profiling via cofactor-refreshing cascading enzymatic reactions and causal machine learning

Lasalde‐Ramírez, J. A., Won, C., Ji, S., Shin, S., McDonald, R. M., Karish, K., Kim, G., Hang, H., Mukasa, D., Arianpour, B., et al. (2026) · Nature Sensors · doi:10.1038/s44460-026-00117-0 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Progressive increases in adiposity and ectopic fat surrogates across glycaemic states highlight weight reduction as a key target for type 2 diabetes prevention, especially in younger people

Scilletta, S., Welsh, P. I., Pino, A. D., & Sattar, N. A. (2025) · Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism · doi:10.1111/dom.70248 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Analysis of factors affecting early hepatic steatosis in pediatric patients with Wilson’s disease in China: A retrospective study

Wang, M., Wang, F., Tao, Z., & Yang, W. (2025) · Medicine · doi:10.1097/md.0000000000045501 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Association of Weighted Composite Score of Long‐Term Variability of Vascular Risk Factors From Childhood With Midlife Cognitive Function: The Bogalusa Heart Study

Kang, S. J., Gustat, J., Tang, W., Hwang, P. H., Carmichael, O. T., Anda‐Duran, I. D., & Bazzano, L. (2026) · Journal of the American Heart Association · doi:10.1161/jaha.125.048189 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Acute Triglyceride Response to 60-Minute Jogging Exercise Among Community-Dwelling Adults in Ternate

Rizal, F., Nikma, N., & Khondowa, V. D. (2026) · Jurnal Kesehatan Komunitas Indonesia · doi:10.58545/jkki.v6i1.720

Rethinking cardiometabolic risk: The role of childhood neglect and biomarker decoupling

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The Connection Between Triglycerides and Ectopic Fat Obesity: An Inverted U-Shaped CurvePreprint

Zou, Y., Yu, M., Sheng, G., & Xie, G. (2020) · doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-18448/v1 · Cited by 5 · see citing works

The association between triglycerides and ectopic fat obesity: An inverted U-shaped curve

Zou, Y., Sheng, G., Yu, M., & Xie, G. (2020) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0243068 · Cited by 47 · see citing works

Mechanisms and Consequences of Ectopic Fat Accumulation

Buckley, R. E., & Taskinen, M. (2012) · MD Conference Express · doi:10.1177/155989771211006

[Report of a case of hypertriglyceridemia induced by fat (author's transl)].

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Accumulation of Triglyceride-Rich Lipoprotein in Subjects

Bard, J. M., Charles, M.-A. A., Juhan-Vague, I., Vague, P., André, P., Safar, M. E., Fruchart, J., & Biol, A. T. V. (2015)