The Definition and Prevalence of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome: Correlative Clinical Evaluation Based on Phenotypes.

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Increase in the prevalence of obesity has become a major worldwide health problem in adults as well as among children and adolescents. In the last four decades, studies have revealed that the significant increase in the prevalence of obesity has become a pandemic. Obesity is the result of complex interactions between biological, genetic, environmental, and behavioral factors. Indeed, almost all of the children...

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