| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - More than 66% of adults in the US are now overweight or obese and at least 17% of children in the population at large are now considered overweight.Obesity may be a factor predisposing patients to a myriad of comorbidities that increase the associated mortality rate.Several large prospective trials have documented that obesity is an independent risk factor for mortality from cardiovascular disease
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