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Preventing obesity in women of all ages: a public health priority

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Catherine Lombard
Helena Teede
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Volume 54, Special Issue
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Diabetes Voice, pp. 23-25
Publication Date: 
May 2009
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Brussels, Belgium

Discusses how no risk factor or disease association is stronger than the link between obesity and type 2 diabetes, and that women are far more likely than men to develop type 2 diabetes if they are overweight or obese.

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