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Marta Gritti
Marta is an Assistant Editor for the BMC Series. Before joining BMC, in September 2017, Marta was working as a post-doc at the Italian Institute of Technology of Genoa, studying the neuromodulation of synaptic plasticity in the mouse brain. She has a MSc in Molecular Biology and a PhD in Physiology from the University of Milan; she is fascinated by ethology and animal behaviour.
Where is your fat accumulating? Different fat distribution is linked to different cardiometabolic risk in a sex-dependent manner
Differences in body compositions between men and women are unravelled in this recent publication in Biology of Sex Differences. Taking advantage of modern anatomic and functional imaging techniques, the authors shine a light on subtle differences of fat distribution, and associate them with different metabolic risk amongst sexes.
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