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Re:Overweight and obesity are linked to cancer by burger_moon on Saturday October 07, 2017 @03:28PM (#15425269)
What about muscle? Does that follow the same thing as fat cells, they just stretch/grow, not increase in count? I always just assumed more cells were created as you got bigger.
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Re:Overweight and obesity are linked to cancer by DrScump on Saturday October 07, 2017 @04:08PM (#15425444)
Human muscle cells experience hypertrophy (growth) but not hyperplasia (increase in number). (Post-puberty, anyway)
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