M Elena Angarita-Plánchez, Paula Sánchez-Rodríguez, Ana M Múnera-Rodríguez, Camila Leiva-Castro, Juan Manuel Benítez-Márquez, Icíar Reina-Pérez, Francisca Palomares, Soledad López-Enríquez
{"title":"Autophagy in Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: Beyond the Protective Paradigm.","authors":"M Elena Angarita-Plánchez, Paula Sánchez-Rodríguez, Ana M Múnera-Rodríguez, Camila Leiva-Castro, Juan Manuel Benítez-Márquez, Icíar Reina-Pérez, Francisca Palomares, Soledad López-Enríquez","doi":"10.1007/s13679-026-00716-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13679-026-00716-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>This review examines the current evidence on autophagy dysregulation in obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), with particular emphasis on its tissue-specific nature and implications for clinical translation.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>Recent human and preclinical evidence indicates that autophagic alterations in metabolic disease are not uniformly suppressed but vary according to tissue type and disease stage. In adipose tissue, liver, skeletal muscle, pancreatic β cells, and immune cells, dysregulated mTORC1-AMPK signaling, defective mitophagy, and impaired lysosomal function contribute to insulin resistance, ectopic lipid accumulation, and metaflammation. However, most human studies rely on static markers such as LC3, p62, and Beclin-1, which do not reliably reflect dynamic autophagic flux. Recent advances, including organelle-specific biomarkers, ex vivo functional assays, and circulating exosomal cargo, offer new translational opportunities, although standardization remains limited. Autophagy in metabolic disease represents a context-dependent maladaptation rather than a uniformly protective pathway. Future progress will depend on harmonized biomarker panels, functional assessment of autophagic flux in humans, and integration with metabolic phenotyping to enable precision-based therapeutic strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":10846,"journal":{"name":"Current Obesity Reports","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147833804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reuben Simfukwe, Felix P Chilunga, Charles Agyemang
{"title":"The Epidemiology of the Global Syndemic in Africa: New Evidence and Key Insights.","authors":"Reuben Simfukwe, Felix P Chilunga, Charles Agyemang","doi":"10.1007/s13679-026-00717-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13679-026-00717-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10846,"journal":{"name":"Current Obesity Reports","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13121359/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147765143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lana Vanderlee, Kelly Garton, Mavra Ahmed, Kathryn Backholer, Carolina Batis, Marie A Bragg, Emma Boyland, Adrian J Cameron, Luciana Castronuovo, Elizabeth K Dunford, Clara Gómez-Donoso, Guanlan Hu, Alexandra Jones, Bridget Kelly, Amos Laar, Meron Lewis, Christiam Méndez-Lazarte, Sally Mackay, Christina M Pollard, Erica Reeve, Sally Schultz, Tailane Scapin, Suzanne Soares-Wynter, Rina Swart, Boyd Swinburn, Caroline Vaillancourt, Gary Sacks
{"title":"Prioritising Indicators for Large-scale Monitoring and Assessment of Food Environments for Public Health.","authors":"Lana Vanderlee, Kelly Garton, Mavra Ahmed, Kathryn Backholer, Carolina Batis, Marie A Bragg, Emma Boyland, Adrian J Cameron, Luciana Castronuovo, Elizabeth K Dunford, Clara Gómez-Donoso, Guanlan Hu, Alexandra Jones, Bridget Kelly, Amos Laar, Meron Lewis, Christiam Méndez-Lazarte, Sally Mackay, Christina M Pollard, Erica Reeve, Sally Schultz, Tailane Scapin, Suzanne Soares-Wynter, Rina Swart, Boyd Swinburn, Caroline Vaillancourt, Gary Sacks","doi":"10.1007/s13679-026-00705-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13679-026-00705-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10846,"journal":{"name":"Current Obesity Reports","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13102733/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147765056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colin J Orr, Aspen E Streetman, Ivan A Carruyo, Amy L Beck, Katie Queen, Tierra Sanders, William J Heerman
{"title":"Prevalence and Predictors of Guideline Concordant Pediatric Obesity Care: A Narrative Review.","authors":"Colin J Orr, Aspen E Streetman, Ivan A Carruyo, Amy L Beck, Katie Queen, Tierra Sanders, William J Heerman","doi":"10.1007/s13679-026-00712-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13679-026-00712-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10846,"journal":{"name":"Current Obesity Reports","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13079462/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147671012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intelligence-driven Mechanomedicine for Weight Rebound in Obesity.","authors":"Shanshan Zhu, Bo Cheng, Bin Gao, Feng Xu","doi":"10.1007/s13679-026-00714-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13679-026-00714-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10846,"journal":{"name":"Current Obesity Reports","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147662580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ximena Ramos Salas, Brad Hussey, Angela S Alberga, Ted Kyle, Francine Small
{"title":"Rethinking Obesity Prevention: A Call for Strategic and Operational Clarity.","authors":"Ximena Ramos Salas, Brad Hussey, Angela S Alberga, Ted Kyle, Francine Small","doi":"10.1007/s13679-026-00708-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13679-026-00708-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10846,"journal":{"name":"Current Obesity Reports","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13056760/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147627462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christo Albor, Oluwaseun Anyiam, Luke D Boyle, Janine Makaronidis, Rachael Tan, Sahar Iftikhar, Amna Burzic, Fannie Lajeunesse Trempe, Moira Stanley, Aniqah Bhatti, Jadine Scragg, Layla Badawy, Komal Moqeem, Iskandar Idris, Rob C Andrews, Piya Sen Gupta, David Hughes, Katherine McCullough, Tricia Tan, Barbara McGowan
{"title":"The Role of GLP1 Receptor Agonists and Multi-agonist Incretin Therapies for Specific Obesity-related Health Conditions: Evidence and Rationale for Prioritisation.","authors":"Christo Albor, Oluwaseun Anyiam, Luke D Boyle, Janine Makaronidis, Rachael Tan, Sahar Iftikhar, Amna Burzic, Fannie Lajeunesse Trempe, Moira Stanley, Aniqah Bhatti, Jadine Scragg, Layla Badawy, Komal Moqeem, Iskandar Idris, Rob C Andrews, Piya Sen Gupta, David Hughes, Katherine McCullough, Tricia Tan, Barbara McGowan","doi":"10.1007/s13679-026-00707-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13679-026-00707-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10846,"journal":{"name":"Current Obesity Reports","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147590701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tala Abedalqader, Joseph Klim, Tony Boutros, Nour El Ghazal, Juan Ignacio Isaac, Andrew G Robertson, Mohammad Kermansaravi, Omar M Ghanem
{"title":"Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: The Contraindications of the Past are the Indications of the Future.","authors":"Tala Abedalqader, Joseph Klim, Tony Boutros, Nour El Ghazal, Juan Ignacio Isaac, Andrew G Robertson, Mohammad Kermansaravi, Omar M Ghanem","doi":"10.1007/s13679-026-00711-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13679-026-00711-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10846,"journal":{"name":"Current Obesity Reports","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147590621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}