Figure 2.

Contribution of brown adipose tissue to obesity and its associated metabolic and vascular complications. One of the possible causes that induce the development of obesity could be a decrease in the amount and activity of the brown adipose tissue. In this situation, there would be an alteration of functions that perform brown adipose tissue on lipid metabolism and carbohydrate as well as the expression profile of cytokines and adipokines, favoring obesity and the related metabolic and vascular complications.