And,it causes ten percent of cardiovascular diseases, like heart disease and stroke.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

If you look at increasing weight as you go from left to right on this axis, lean people, overweight people, and obese people, the risk goes way up for death from cardiovascular diseases.

从X轴左边到右边,随着体重不断上升,精瘦的,超重的,以及肥胖人群,心血管疾病的致死风险也随之增加

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"In simple terms, things such as type two diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases of a variety of types, and lung diseases and so on, are all found at higher than the comparison rates within the country, in many of these countries with indigenous populations."

VOA: special.2009.07.20