Review Article
Obesity, Visceral Fat, and NAFLD: Querying
the Role of Adipokines in the Progression of
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Table 4
Body fat distribution [
27].
| Depot | Remarks |
| Subcutaneous | About 80% of all body fat. Can functionally be divided into abdominal and gluteofemoral |
| Visceral | Drained by the portal vein. Anatomically divided into omental, mesenteric, and retroperitoneal fat |
| Other | Peritoneal and orbital |
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