To know if a person with obesity has any damage to their metabolism, there are diagnostic tools that allow us to know their state of health, however, sometimes the damage can be masked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt may be that a patient with obesity performs well on their triglyceride and blood glucose tests, but in reality, they have metabolic damage,\u201d says Noem\u00ed Garc\u00eda<\/a>, research professor at the Experimental Medicine and Advanced Therapies Unit of the Institute for Obesity Research (IOR)<\/a>, in an interview with TecScience<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Currently, one of her lines of research, which is still in very early stages, has focused on adding a new marker to the tools that doctors have to evaluate whether there is damage in people with this condition: circulating mitochondrial DNA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The researcher has dedicated much of her work to understanding mitochondria in depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n