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Is Disability Obesity's Price of Longevity?
Edward W. Gregg, PhD;
Jack M. Guralnik, MD, PhD
JAMA. 2007;298(17):2066-2067.
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The long-term effect of the increasing obesity epidemic is one of the most closely watched and actively debated issues in public health today.1 Because of the diverse consequences of obesity, there is concern that it could reverse many of the public health successes that have occurred in recent decades and could erode the overall health status of people in the United States. The strongest validation of this fear to date is the increase in the prevalence and incidence of diabetes, which have unabatedly paralleled obesity trends.2-4 The effect of obesity on overall mortality, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and related risk factors, however, has been weaker and may have diminished over time.4-7 The differing influence of obesity on diabetes and CVD reveals the complex nature of chronic disease epidemics and the degree to which their effects can be influenced by the capacity of . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Author Affiliations: Division of Diabetes Translation, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia (Dr Gregg); and Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland (Dr Guralnik).
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