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A Pathway to Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome?

Arch Intern Med. 2005;165:15-16.

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Whether one is reading recent reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, articles in the scientific literature or popular press, or just glancing around and looking at people in the subway or the shopping mall, it is apparent that there is a major epidemic in America: obesity! Obesity is a disease that, in just the past few decades, has been rising dramatically in developed countries and reached epidemic levels in the United States. Data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Program (available at: www.cdc.gov/brfss) have revealed a striking increase, over the past 15 years and across the United States, in the prevalence of overweight (body mass index [BMI, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters], 25-30) and obesity (BMI >30), and there is recent evidence of an alarming rise in the proportion of children affected with the disorder. Besides the social . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Joseph Bass, MD, PhD; Fred W. Turek, MD

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