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The impact of overweight and obesity on public health

✍ Scribed by John C. Stanley

Publisher
Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
145 KB
Volume
21
Category
Article
ISSN
0956-666X

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The global prevalence of obesity and overweight is increasing, bringing with it increases in mortality and morbidity from a constellation of diseases or comorbidities. In addition major increases in health care costs can be anticipated. At first sight many of the obesity and overweight comorbidities do not seem to have any common mechanism but the metabolic syndrome or the insulin resistance syndrome may provide a unifying mechanism for at least some of them. The public health case for addressing this progressive epidemic of overweight and obesity is unanswerable but this will require a solution to the seemingly intractable problem of persuading people to change their lifestyle.

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