Kyrou, Ioannis and Weickert, Martin O. (2010) Clinical problems caused by obesity. Working Paper. MDText.com, Inc, Endotext.org .

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Abstract

Over the past few decades the incidence of obesity has doubled worldwide and current estimates classify more than 1.5 billion adults as overweight and at least 500 million of them as clinically obese, with body mass index (BMI) over 25 kg/m2 and 30 kg/m2, respectively. Obesity prevalence rates are steadily rising in the majority of the modern Western societies, as well as in the developing world. Moreover, alarming trends of weight gain are reported for children and adolescents, undermining the present and future health status of the pediatric population. To highlight the related threat to public health, the World Health Organization has declared obesity a global epidemic, also stressing that it remains an under-recognized problem of the public health agenda.

Item Type:	Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper)
Subjects:	R Medicine > RC Internal medicine
Divisions:	Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Clinical Sciences Research Institute (CSRI) Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Obesity, Weight loss
Publisher:	MDText.com, Inc
Place of Publication:	Endotext.org
Date:	17 May 2010
Number of Pages:	92
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/3401

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