Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Treatment Challenge
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in The Endocrinologist
- Vol. 12 (1) , 23-28
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00019616-200201000-00007
Abstract
This article discusses the pathophysiologic relationship between type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity and the effect of obesity on the complications of that disease. It is concluded that obesity plays an important role in type 2 diabetes and that modulating body weight can be an important therapeutic modality in treating this illness.Keywords
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