Diabetes & Obesity Discussion Group
Diabetes and obesity are inextricably linked components in a global epidemic affecting as many as one-third of individuals in susceptible populations. According to the World Health Organization, there are more than one billion overweight adults at risk of type 2 diabetes, as well as other chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease, hypertension and stroke, and certain forms of cancer.
The Diabetes & Obesity Discussion Group brings together experts from widely different disciplines that rarely collaborate, to stimulate new research initiatives and strategies for containing this health crisis. The group places great importance on informal interaction between bench scientists, clinical pharmacologists, representatives of public health organizations, industry leaders, and policy makers, owing to the multifactorial etiology of an epidemic affecting the entire human life-span.