Endocrine Abstracts

Overweight and obesity have become an increasingly serious clinical and socioeconomic problem worldwide. Recent systematic analysis of health examination surveys demonstrated that in 2008 an estimated 1.46 billion adults worldwide had BMI of 25 kg/m2 or greater, of these 205 million men and 297 million women were obese. Overweight and obese patients are at increased risk for developing various co-morbidities (type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, cardiovascul...