Why obesity must be treated as the root of cardiometabolic disease

Jan 9, 2023

We must intervene and begin treating obesity as the root of all cardiometabolic diseases or this underlying pandemic will bankrupt healthcare systems around the world. Image: Photo by Mufid Majnun on Unsplash

Isabelle Kenyon

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Calibrate

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Without a solution, the global economic costs of overweight and obesity are projected to increase from just under $2 trillion in 2020 to $18 trillion by 2060. Image: Okunogbe, Nugent, Spencer, Powis, Ralston, Wilding, 2020

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