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obesity

[oh-bee-si-tee] / oʊˈbi sɪ ti /


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The medical examiner’s office also noted that Bauza lived with sleep apnea and class 2 obesity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

Discovering an additional pathway for increasing energy expenditure could be important because it offers researchers another potential target for treating obesity and related metabolic disorders.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

Jack Doughty, of the Obesity Health Alliance, said people living with obesity were being "let down by a fragmented and overstretched treatment system".

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Eli Lilly LLY 3.49%increase; up pointing triangle , meanwhile, is expected to grow sales this year by more than 30%, driven by its diabetes and obesity drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

In recent times his annoyance with the absurd obesity that prevented him from tying his shoes and his abusive satisfaction with all manner of appetites had begun to sour his character.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It does not require a Paxton to know that a hole in the stage two feet square, will not hold Barnum's obesities.

From Physiology of The Opera by John H. Swaby


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