Um corpo maior não significa necessariamente que você tenha “obesidade clínica”, de acordo com uma nova definição proposta para a doença.
- Professor and Chair, Monash University Department of Surgery, School of Translational Medicine, Alfred Health, Monash University
A larger body doesn’t necessarily mean you have ‘clinical obesity’, according to a proposed new definition of the disease.
People with private health insurance are nine times more likely than those without to have bariatric weight-loss surgery, a new study has found. Bariatric surgery, which includes gastric banding, sleeve…
Around 2.6 million or 10% of Australians are obese. Obesity contributes to other diseases, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, obstructive sleep apnoea, infertility, depression and cancer. The strength…
Prevention is the cornerstone of society’s response to the current obesity epidemic. But even if no more people were to gain much more weight, those who are already obese face serious health problems…
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