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Obesity is a chronic, relapsing, multifactorial, neurobehavioral disease, wherein an increase in body fat promotes adipose tissue dysfunction and abnormal fat mass resulting in adverse metabolic, biomechanical, and psychosocial health consequences [1]. Obesity is defined as having a body mass index (BMI) of ≥30 kg/m2. It is estimated that more than 1 billion of the world’s population are obese. This significant prevalence of obesity poses public health as well as economic concerns.

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  1. Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, North Central Bronx Hospital, 3424 Kossuth Ave, Bronx, NY, 10467, USA

    Gayotri Goswami MD, FACE

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, North Central Bronx Hospital, 3424 Kossuth Ave, Suite 3H-17, Bronx, NY, 10467, USA

    Jacinth S. Ruddock MD

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Goswami, G., Ruddock, J.S. (2018). Obesity. In: Sydney, E., Weinstein, E., Rucker, L. (eds) Handbook of Outpatient Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68379-9_9

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