Research paper
Després JP, Lemieux I. Abdominal obesity and metabolic syndrome. Nature. 2006 Dec 14;444(7121):881-887. doi: 10.1038/nature05488
Why we cite it
A landmark Nature review establishing the centrality of abdominal obesity to metabolic syndrome. Argues that abdominal obesity is not just one of several metabolic syndrome criteria but the most prevalent manifestation and a marker of dysfunctional adipose tissue, making fat distribution more clinically important than total body weight.