Laura Rosella

It is well known that people with chronic conditions, including cardiovascular disease, are more likely to suffer complications from the flu, for this reason.

It is important to note that people with extra body weight overall also tend to have extra weight in the midsection – so achieving a healthy body weight should be a priority, the message that is important for young people is that the earlier excess weight starts to accumulate, the early it starts negatively affecting your metabolic risk for many diseases, including kidney disease.

The health care provider has to tell the patient that they don’t meet the criteria for diabetes but they aren’t quite out of the woods, which can be a challenging concept to get across, this challenge could explain the low awareness.