Obesity and Diet

Genetics of Obesity

Submit Abstract Register Now

Genetics plays an important role in obesity. Genes can directly cause obesity with disorders such as Bardet-Biedi syndrome and Prader-willi syndrome. However genes do not always predict future health problems but genes and behavior may both be needed for a person to be overweight. Body Mass Index (BMI) >30 kg/m2, and it is  more than one in three children born in the early 21st  century will arise diabetes with a consequential reduction in lifetime expectancy.

Obesity is a major risk factor for cardiovascular, pulmonary, metabolic, and osteoarticular disease, for several of the common forms of cancer and for serious psychiatric illness. Childhood obesity is associated with earlier type II diabetes and with an increased mortality risk for coronary heart disease in adults. Nowadays so many treatments and medications are available for the Genetics of obesity. Gene therapy is a wildly used treatment for obesity.

• Physical activity
• Work related physical activity
• Hereditary factors

Obesity Conferences | Conferences on Obesity | Obesity and Diet Conferences | Top Obesity Conferences | Meetings on Obesity | Nutrition Conferences

Recommended Conferences:

World Obesity Summit 2018 | Childhood Obesity Events | World Obesity Conference Budapest 2018 | Annual Obesity Congress

Related Associations and Societies:

Obesity Action Coalition USA | National Association of Nutrition Professionals USA | Dieticians Association of Australia | Asia; Asian Society for Neuro-Oncology Japan | The Korean Nutrition Society, Asia