Alessandro Sartório

Sphingolipid signatures at the extremes of energy balance: a comparative study of obesity and anorexia nervosa in women

Background Anorexia nervosa (AN) and obesity (OB) represent opposite extremes of energy balance and are both associated with profound metabolic alterations. Increasing evidence suggests that sphingolipids play a central role in cardiometabolic regulation, inflammation, and insuli...

A multidimensionalMuscle quality index in severe bbesity: relationships with ageing, adiposity, and functional performance

Traditional anthropometric indicators such as body mass index (BMI) may inadequately capture functional muscular impairment in obesity. To investigate a multidimensional composite muscle quality index (MQI) integrating relative strength and lower-limb functional power in adults w...