Diabetes and obesity. Two diseases linked

Abstract

Obesity is a chronic, progressive and recurrent disease. This is the simple, firm and evidence-based description that organizations and scientific societies of renown and global relevance use today. Obesity migrated in his consideration from a risk factor to a primary disease. It is not only a condition underlying chronic non-communicable diseases -such as cardiovascular disease (CVD), type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) or cancer, among others- but it is also a disease that affects the population in an epidemic form, universal and at any age.

Keywords

• editorial
• diabetes
• obesidad