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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a condition in which excess fat is stored in the liver in people who drink little or no alcohol.

At UT Southwestern, some of Dallas' top plastic surgeons perform thigh-lift surgery using the smallest incisions possible to remove excess fat and skin.

CACTUS Lab clinical services include contrast-enhanced ultrasound, antegrade nephrostogram, elastography, liver fat quantification, percutaneous ethanol (Alcohol) ablation (PEA), Ultrasound-Guided Procedures

Lona Sandon, Associate Professor of Clinical Nutrition at UT Southwestern Medical Center, offers several tips on how to keep salt, sugar, and fat in check.

Philipp Scherer, Director of the Touchstone Center for Diabetes Research at UT Southwestern, will receive the 2017 EASD-Novo Nordisk Foundation Diabetes Prize for Excellence in recognition of his research that explains the relationship between body fat and type 2 diabetes.

UT Southwestern Medical Center is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading clinical and research centers for lipid metabolism and lipid disorders, which are abnormalities in the way the body processes cholesterol and fat.

Reducing the level of body fat and waist size are linked to a lower risk of heart failure in patients with type 2 diabetes, a study led by UT Southwestern researchers indicates.

Breastfeeding secures delivery of sugar and fat for milk production by changing the insulin sensitivity of organs that supply or demand these nutrients, a new study led by UT Southwestern scientists suggests.

Our research is focused on mechanisms underlying acute kidney injury and sepsis.  Our laboratory has implicated mitochondrial maintenance via PGC1alpha and NAD+ as a novel pathway for resilience against acute physiological stressors.

Combining a high fat diet with a drug that raises blood pressure gave them a “two-hit” model, like a one-two punch to heart failure.