Huang states that research in recent years has revealed that adipocytes (fat cells) are active regulators of the energy balance in the body, and play an important role in disorders such as obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease.
黃國城指出，近年的研究發現，脂肪細胞是體內能量均衡狀態的調節者，與肥胖症、糖尿病、骨質疏鬆症、心血管疾病有密切的關係。