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. 2018 Aug;28(8):919-924.
doi: 10.1089/lap.2018.0380. Epub 2018 Jul 16.

Epidemiology of Obesity and Associated Comorbidities

Ciro Andolfi  1 , P Marco Fisichella  2
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Epidemiology of Obesity and Associated Comorbidities

Ciro Andolfi et al. J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A. 2018 Aug.

Abstract

Obesity currently affects 78.6 million people (33%) in the United States and is expected to increase to over 50% of the population by 2030. This epidemic is fueled by the growing rate of obesity in adolescents. The new science of obesity indicates that there is a tipping point at which genetic resetting occurs and it is reached when adipose tissue dysfunction occurs. It is becoming clear that obesity is less an ongoing personal choice than a fact of biology. With this review, we aim to describe the epidemiology of obesity and the associated comorbidities.

Keywords: comorbidities; epidemiology; obesity.

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