Where: Montgomery Community College (Rockville Campus) – Humanity Building (HU), Conference Room 009 (Get Directions, Campus Map )
Synopsis:
Obesity is a rising modern pandemic: today more than one-third of the American adults are obese, and another third are overweight. While the rising trends in the prevalence of obesity seem to have reached a plateau in the US and some European countries, many developing countries are still experiencing a surge. The rise in the prevalence of childhood obesity has probably been faster, with the rates almost tripling in the US since 1980, and reaching 16.9% among children and adolescents in 2010. In the year 2010, almost 43 million preschool children were obese, and almost 80% of them lived in developing countries. Obesity, directly or indirectly, is responsible for a large proportion of the leading causes of preventable death including heart disease, stroke, and certain types of cancer. Obesity and diabetes are very closely related as parts of a spectrum called “the metabolic syndrome”, and thus are sometimes referred to as “diabesity”. This presentation reviews the epidemiology of “diabesity”, its complications and prevention, from a public health perspective.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Arash Etemadi is currently a visiting fellow at National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH. He has received his MD, MPH and PhD in epidemiology from Tehran University. After his PhD, he did a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Maastricht (Netherlands), and then was appointed as Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Tehran University. In 2010 he joined the National Cancer Institute to work on esophageal cancer studies. Dr. Etemadi has served as an editor for several biomedical journals, and has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles mainly focusing on obesity, diabetes and cancer.
Fee (including dinner): $5 Students, $15 Public
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