Fredrik Karpe
MD/PhD, FRCP
Professor of Metabolic Medicine
- Head of OCDEM
- Honorary Consultant Physician
Oxford Laboratory for Integrative Physiology (Oxlip)
I head the Metabolic Research Group together with Associate Professor Leanne Hodson. My research is focussed on human adipose tissue function and the metabolic consequences of obesity. With increasing rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes, this is an area of unmet clinical need. We are intrigued by strong epidemiological data suggesting opposite associations between the risk of both diabetes and cardiovascular disease vs. upper and lower body obesity. The current research line aims to clarify protective role of gluteofemoral adipose tissue and the metabolically detrimental role of abdominal adipose tissue by studying the tissues at both cellular and whole body level. If one could impose the specialized features of gluteofemoral fat to other tissues, this may lead to interesting new therapeutic approaches.
Recent publications
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Prevalence, incidence and predictors of cardiovascular risk factors: longitudinal data from rural and urban South India and comparison with global data.
Journal article
Vasan SK. et al, (2020), BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care, 8
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Using a new socioepidemiological questionnaire to analyse associations between intergenerational upward social mobility and body fat distribution: a pilot study with the Oxford BioBank cohort.
Journal article
Eli K. et al, (2020), J Epidemiol Community Health
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Differential occupational risks to healthcare workers from SARS-CoV-2 observed during a prospective observational study.
Journal article
Eyre DW. et al, (2020), Elife, 9
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Prevalence, Incidence and predictors of cardiovascular risk factors-longitudianl study from rural and urban South India and comparison with global data
Journal article
Vasan SK. et al, (2020)
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RSPO3 impacts body fat distribution and regulates adipose cell biology in vitro.
Journal article
Loh NY. et al, (2020), Nat Commun, 11
ORCID
0000-0002-2751-1770