Internal Medicine: Open Access
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Barber TM

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• Review Article
  Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
  Author(s): Saboor Aftab SA, Reddy N, Smith E and Barber TM Saboor Aftab SA, Reddy N, Smith E and Barber TM
  
  The global obesity epidemic is showing no signs of abating, and is fuelling an explosion in numbers of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2D) worldwide. Despite clear epidemiological and pathophysiological links between obesity and T2D, the actual mechanisms are complex given that some people with obesity appear to be protected in some way from developing T2D, and T2D can develop in a minority of lean people. Obesity and T2D form part of the metabolic syndrome, which combined with hypertension and dyslipidaemia result in premature mortality from cardiovascular disease in millions of people globally each year. Long-term microvascular sequelae from T2D and multiple co-morbidities associated with obesity (including psychological, musculoskeletal, respiratory and reproductive) also have a major adverse impact on quality of life and pose an enormous fiscal burden on global health authorities. Majo.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-8048.S6-002

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