Abstract: Products and methods for the research, diagnosis, risk assessment, course monitoring, treatment and prophylaxis of various metabolic disorders and their early forms, concomitant diseases and secondary diseases are provided. Metabolic diseases include, for example, metabolic syndrome, non-insulin-dependent diabetes, (type II diabetes), insulin resistance, obesity (adiposis), in addition to diseases that are associated with disorders of the fatty acid metabolism. Methods may include analysis of the concentration of the adipocytic form of the fatty acid binding protein (A-FABP, FABP 4, P2) in various bodily fluids.

Abstract: Products and methods for the research, diagnosis, risk assessment, course monitoring, treatment and prophylaxis of various metabolic disorders and their early forms, concomitant diseases and secondary diseases are provided. Metabolic diseases include, for example, metabolic syndrome, non-insulin-dependent diabetes, (type II diabetes), insulin resistance, obesity (adiposis), in addition to diseases that are associated with disorders of the fatty acid metabolism. Methods may include analysis of the concentration of the adipocytic form of the fatty acid binding protein (A-FABP, FABP 4, P2) in various bodily fluids.

Abstract: The invention relates to products and methods for the research, diagnosis, risk assessment, course monitoring, treatment and prophylaxis of various metabolic disorders and their early forms, concomitant diseases and secondary diseases. Metabolic diseases in the aforementioned sense include, among others, metabolic syndrome, non-insulin-dependent diabetes, (type II diabetes), insulin resistance, obesity (adiposis), in addition to diseases that are associated with disorders of the fatty acid metabolism. The inventive methods can be used, among other things, for determining the concentration of the adipocytic form of the fatty acid binding protein (A-FABP, FABP 4, P2) in various bodily fluids.