Clinical Obesity and Related ****bolic Disease in Adults and Children
Author: Peter G. Kopelman (Editor), Ian Caterson (Editor), William Dietz (Editor)
Product Details
504 pages, Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated; 2 edition (July 1, 2005) $199.95
Format: 4.6MB PDF
Summary:
Obesity is serious problem: in the year 2000, the World Health Organization published statistics which revealed that globally 302 million people were clinically obese (BMI > 30.0) - 8.2% of the global population. In developed market economy countries, the incidence of obesity is 20.4% of the population and in countries where the economy is in transition the incidence is 17.1%.Obesity substantially increases the risk of morbidity from hypertension, type II diabetes, stroke, gallbladder disease, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea and respiratory problems and endometrial, breast, prostate and colon cancers. It is a major contributor to preventive death in the US which has 97 million adults classified as obese. The prevalence of obesity is increasing: between 1960 and 1994, the number of obese adults (aged 20-74 years) in the US increased from 12.8 to 22.5%.
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