Overweight and Obeseve People are at High Risk of Developing Metabolic Syndrome

Abstract

Obesity is currently one of the most serious medical, social and economic problems of modern society. Over the past 40 years, there has been an increase in the number of overweight and obese people [1-3]. SinghG.K. and so on. Analyzing data from 1976-2008, it showed that in the older age of the American population (≥18 years old), excess weight increased from 36.9% to 62%, obesity increased from 8.7 to 27.4% [1]. A. Berghöfer and others. In 2008, he published a systematic review of the prevalence of obesity in Europe, summarizing data from the end of 1980 to 2005. In Portugal, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania and Albania, the obesity of the population of the countries of Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean was higher than in the countries of Western and Northern Europe [4].