Macrophage infiltration into omental versus subcutaneous fat across different populations: effect of regional adiposity and the co-morbidities of obesity Short title: Macrophage infiltration into fat depots

* These authors contributed equally to this work. 1Diabetes Unit and Internal Medicine C, 3Pathology Institute, 6Surgery Department A, Soroka Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Medical Department III, University of Leipzig, Germany, 4The National Institute of Biotechnology in The Negev, The Department of Clinical Biochemistry, 7Department of Epidemiology, and 8the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Health and Nutrition, Faculty of Health Sciences, BenGurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.