Diabetes and obesity. Two diseases linked

Obesity is a chronic, progressive and recurrent disease. This is the simple, firm and evidence-based description that organizations and scientific societies of renown and global relevance use today. Obesity migrated in his consideration from a risk factor to a primary disease. It is not only a condi...

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Main Authors: Julio César Bragagnolo, Gustavo Frechtel, Carmen Sylvia Mazza
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Sello Editorial Lugones 2022-04-01
Series:Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Diabetes
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Online Access:https://revistasad.com/index.php/diabetes/article/view/522
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Summary:Obesity is a chronic, progressive and recurrent disease. This is the simple, firm and evidence-based description that organizations and scientific societies of renown and global relevance use today. Obesity migrated in his consideration from a risk factor to a primary disease. It is not only a condition underlying chronic non-communicable diseases -such as cardiovascular disease (CVD), type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) or cancer, among others- but it is also a disease that affects the population in an epidemic form, universal and at any age.
ISSN:0325-5247
2346-9420