ABSTRACT
The obesity epidemic has resulted in increased interest in the health consequences of obesity.Obesity is associatedwith a number of adverse health outcomes. Among these are an increased risk of subsequent development of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) and an increased risk for cardiovascular (CV) disease. Together, these conditions already account for the majority of morbidity and mortality in industrialized nations, and the prospect of a ballooning population with augmented disease susceptibility threatens to undo the significant advances in the prevention of CV disease we have seen in the last few decades.
