“…Obesity is defined as concentrated or generalized fatty acid deposition, derived from nutritional imbalance associated or not with genetic or endocrine metabolic disorders [6]. It is an important risk to type 2 diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension, coronary artery disease, dyslipidemias, and certain types of cancer and circulatory disorders [7,8]. It is a complex chronic disease in which adipose tissue is infiltrated by activated macrophages and releases excessive amounts of inflammatory cytokines, such as tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1), interleukin-6 (IL-6), retinol-binding protein 4, macrophages chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1), and acute phase proteins [9].…”