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A cascade of events -- obesity, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes mellitus in youth.

McGillis Bindler RC

Washington State University/Intercollegiate College of Nursing, West 2917 Fort George Wright Drive, Spokane, WA 99224, USA. bindler@wsu.edu

Increased rates of obesity among youth in the last several decades also have led to the emergence of several health problems. Insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome are direct outcomes of increasing obesity rates, which, in turn, lead to the emergence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in youth. Nurses are well positioned to intervene with individual youth and populations at risk to interrupt the cascade of events that lead from obesity to severe health problems.

Published 2 February 2007 in Nurs Clin North Am, 42(1): 29-42, vi.
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