title: Obesity and diabetes: time to act.
abstract: Half of all adults will be obese by 2050 (Foresight, 2007). Globally, there are more than 1 billion overweight adults, at least 300 million of them clinically obese.
authors: Peter
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authors: Black
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017281:Cost of Illness; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012307:Risk Factors; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology