Nine members of a Mumbai family, suffering from obesity, underwent bariatric surgery over seven years to lose weight and sustain it. According to doctors, the family suffers from a predisposition to obesity, which had caused them metabolic syndrome - a cluster of biochemical and physiological abnormalities associated with the development of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. In most obese people, no single genetic cause can be identified. Studies have found more than 50 genes associated with obesity, most with very small effects. Read on to know more about genetics and obesity. , Health News, Times Now
Nine members of a Mumbai family, suffering from obesity, underwent bariatric surgery over seven years to lose weight and sustain it. According to doctors, the family suffers from a predisposition to obesity, which had caused them metabolic syndrome - a cluster of biochemical and physiological abnormalities associated with the development of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. In most obese people, no single genetic cause can be identified. Studies have found more than 50 genes associated with obesity, most with very small effects. Read on to know more about genetics and obesity. , Health News, Times Now
India News: MUMBAI: Most surgeries carry a slight degree of risk, but this didn’t deter nine members of a joint family of 50 in Bandra from undergoing bariatric s.