Oestrogen in females tends to promote fat storage in the hips and buttocks ... in a shift towards central adiposity in women, ...

Boys and girls start out with similar fat storage patterns, but puberty changes that. Women have more subcutaneous fat (the kind under the skin) than men, so those extra fat calories tend to be ...

Cheung and colleagues investigated fat distribution patterns in patients with NAFLD ... 123 consecutive patients (median age 56 years, 67% female) with biopsy-confirmed NAFLD.