One in two adults in France is now overweight and 17% are obese. Among economically disadvantaged populations, this prevalence may exceed 20%. These alarming numbers have continued to rise for forty years. This is a major public health problem because obesity is a chronic disease associated with many complications, particularly type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and at least thirteen forms of cancer.
Obesity is a complex disease involving genetic predisposition in interaction with many environmental factors, including changes in eating habits, physical activity levels, psychosocial context, stress or even sleep and disruption of biological rhythms.
In recent years, an entire body of research has been devoted to studying the genetic and biological mechanisms of obesity, and great progress has been made. Understanding the genetic aspects of…
Source: Le Figaro
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