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Obesity and Immunity

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Obesity is defined as an excessive accumulation of body fat stores caused by a mismatch between energy intake and energy expenditure. A clinical definition of obesity is a body mass index (weight/height2) exceeding 30. A major consequence of obesity and, therefore, a major reason for the intense efforts to understand it are the increased health risks associated with obesity (see Fig. 1) for risk stratification by weight and height). Obese subjects have been reported to be significantly more susceptible to coronary heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes mellitus relative to normal, nonobese subjects. Unfortunately, data from national surveys indicate that the prevalence of obesity in the United States has markedly increased (Fig. 2).

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  1. Division of Rheumatology/Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA

    M. Eric Gershwin MD

  2. Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA

    J. Bruce German PhD

  3. Department of Nutrition, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA

    Carl L. Keen PhD

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Davis, P.A., Stern, J.S. (2000). Obesity and Immunity. In: Gershwin, M.E., German, J.B., Keen, C.L. (eds) Nutrition and Immunology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-709-3_24

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