Professor Nik Morton from
the University of Edinburgh / BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science
discusses how our genes and environment contribute to obesity.
In recent years, obesity has become a problem for the health of our children
and young people. Being overweight or obese can lead to high blood pressure,
diabetes, heart attacks, stroke and some cancers and obesity in pregnancy may
have important consequences for the unborn child. Hear how our genes and
environment contribute to obesity and learn of new research from Edinburgh on
natural resistance to obesity that hopes to lead to medicines that can prevent
and treat obesity.
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