Original Research

Obesity as an inflammatory condition

Sonja Slabbert, Hans J de Ridder, Colette Underhay, Salomé Kruger
Health SA Gesondheid | Vol 11, No 2 | a220 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/hsag.v11i2.220 | © 2006 Sonja Slabbert, Hans J de Ridder, Colette Underhay, Salomé Kruger | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 10 November 2006 | Published: 10 November 2006

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Sonja Slabbert,, South Africa
Hans J de Ridder,, South Africa
Colette Underhay,, South Africa
Salomé Kruger,, South Africa

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Abstract

The prevalence of obesity has increased dramatically in the past decade.

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Die voorkoms van obesiteit het oor die afgelope dekade dramaties gestyg en daarmee saam die voorspelling van ‘n toename in morbiditeit sowel as mortaliteit as gevolg van obesiteit-verwante siektetoestande

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