An Example of Visceral Fat Accelerating the Progression of Aging

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2025/05/an-example-of-visceral-fat-accelerating-the-progression-of-aging/

People with excess visceral fat tissue suffer more age-related disease, develop those conditions earlier, and exhibit a higher mortality risk. But is this accelerated aging, an increased burden of the defined forms of damage and dysfunction that drive aging, or is it a different set of damaging processes? There is a fair amount of evidence to suggest that being overweight does literally accelerate aging, such as the fact that greater amounts of visceral fat produce a greater burden of senescent cells, and studies such as the one noted here that correlate higher aging clock measures with the amount of visceral fat. But this isn’t a concretely answered question.

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