Professor Fredrik Karpe explores the links between obesity and diabetes.
Obesity and Diabetes
Prof. Fredrik Karpe initiated the Oxford Biobank for prospective genetic epidemiological research. Integrative physiological and genomic approaches are used to study lipid and carbohydrate metabolism. Prof. Karpe also studies the links between obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
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