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Etiologically, obesity may be described as an “epidemiological transition,” a term developed by Omran [1] to describe the shift from mortality caused by acute infectious diseases to death by chronic, noninfectious, degenerative diseases. This transition responds to a major change in the pattern of health and disease influenced by demographic, economic, and sociological factors [2].
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González, H. (2016). Etiology and Impact of Obesity. In: Managing Patients with Obesity. Adis, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12331-8_3
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