Epidemiology, Trends, and Morbidities of Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome
- 1 January 2006
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Endocrine
- Vol. 29 (1) , 109-118
- https://doi.org/10.1385/endo:29:1:109
Abstract
Obesity has been described as an epidemic because of the rapid increase in the number of overweight and obese individuals over the past 20 yr. This increasKeywords
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