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Obesity now kills at least 280,000 people a year, making it the highest preventable cause of death after smoking.
These events impose potentially preventable burdens on the patients.
Tuberculosis is estimated to cause at least three million deaths per year worldwide [ 1 ] and also accounts for more than one-quarter of all preventable adult deaths in developing countries [ 2 ] . Infection with the human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) is thought to be the single most important factor that has contributed to the increased incidence of tuberculosis globally in the last decade [ 2 ] . Tuberculosis is now the leading cause of death among HIV-infected individuals worldwide and accounts for at least 40% of deaths among HIV-infected persons in Africa [ 3 ] . Furthermore, tuberculosis kills more women than any other infectious disease, including malaria and AIDS [ 4 ] .
One recent review suggests that the medical failures occurring during the time leading up to actual organ procurement in brain dead patients may be preventable with early invasive hemodynamic monitoring, aggressive rewarming and liberal transfusion therapy, all readily available in a modern critical care setting [ 13].
8% in 1998, underscoring the fact that over the last few decades, an emerging epidemic of obesity has become a major cause of preventable death [ 2 ] and disease [ 3 ] . Recognizing the effects of obesity on the nation's health, governments and industry have vigorously pursued the genetic, metabolic and environmental roots of obesity [ 4 5 6 7 ] . Despite the effort, it remains true that little is known about prevention of obesity and its treatment remains no less difficult or failure prone than it ever was [ 8 9 10 ] .
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