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Oxidative Stress and Obesity. The body is greatly impacted by the balance between antioxidants and protective enzymes against the amount of ROS generated. Obesity leads to an increase in the production of ROS and leads to an increase in oxidative stress which leads to adipokine dysregulation and vascular damage, hyperinsulinemia, and the inflammatory state (adapted from Zhou et al. 2021) [37].
