NURSING 2LA2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Blood Pressure, Vascular Disease, Kinesiology
6 Apr 2018
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Prevalence of obesity is so high that the world health organization (or who) and the. Centres for disease control and prevention (cdc) now refer to the obesity epidemic . The world watch institute released a report in the year 2000 stating for the rst time in human history, the number of overweight people rivals the number of underweight people . Even more concerning that the fact that one third of us adults are considered obese, is that rates of childhood obesity have tripled since 1980 in the usa. The same trend is occurring globally; according to the who 22 million children under 5 are estimated to be overweight worldwide . This is pretty frightening news considering that we as a society are used to ever- lengthening lifespans because of better living conditions and medical advances. Now there is even talk of a double-cohort of cardiovascular patients.
