Dr. Ali H. Mokdad

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  Both obesity and diabetes are preventable and yet more than 60 percent of Americans are overweight and obese and about 15 million Americans age 18 and older had diagnosed diabetes in 2000 , said Ali Mokdad , Ph.D. , a CDC epidemiologist.
  
  Approximately 800 , 000 new cases of diabetes are diagnosed every year and most people with diabetes ( 90 percent ) have type 2. Older age , physical inactivity , obesity and family history are main risk factors for type 2. Type 1 , previously juvenile onset , represents about five to 10 percent and is not associated with lifestyle.
  
  As we learned last month from a study supported by the National Institutes of Health , even those of us at higher risk for diabetes can greatly reduce our chances of developing this deadly disease by eating a healthy diet and getting moderate exercise.Yet far too many of us are not following this simple prescription.

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  Age-adjusted death rates for 113 selected causes by race and sex: United States, 2005 Death rates by age and age-adjusted death rates for the 15 leading causes of death 2005: United States, 1999-2005 Mokdad, Ali H., PhD, James S. Marks, MD, MPH, Donna F. Stroup, PhD, MSc, Julie L. Gerberding, MD, MPH, "Actual Causes of Death in the United States, 2000," Journal of the American Medical Association, March 10, 2004, Vol.
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  Ali H. Mokdad, PhD is a Distinguished Scientist at the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention.He received his PhD in quantitative epidemiology from Emory University and joined CDC in 1990 where he has served in various positions with the International Health Program, the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, and the National Immunization Program.He was appointed Chief of the Behavioral Surveillance Branch in 2002.He also manages and directs the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), the world's largest standardized telephone survey, to enable the CDC, state health departments, and other health and education agencies to monitor risk behaviors related to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States.Dr. Mokdad has published over 175 articles and numerous reports.He has received several awards including the Global Health Achievement for his work in Banda Aceh after the Tsunami, the Department of Health and Human Services Honor Award for his work on flu monitoring, and the Shepard award for outstanding scientific contribution to public health for his work on BRFSS.

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  "Our findings were striking," said CDC epidemiologist Ali Mokdad, the lead author of the JAMA article.

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  Ali Mokdad, MD, PhDDistinguished Scientist at the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention
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  Dr. Mokdad is a Distinguished Scientist at the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention.He received his Ph.D. in quantitative epidemiology from Emory University and joined CDC in 1990 where he has served in various positions with the International Health Program, the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, and the National Immunization Program.He was appointed Chief of the Behavioral Surveillance Branch in 2002.He also manages and directs the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), the world's largest standardized telephone survey, to enable the CDC, state health departments, and other health and education agencies to monitor risk behaviors related to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States.Dr. Mokdad has published over 175 peer reviewed articles and numerous reports.He has received several awards including the Global Health Achievement for his work in Banda Aceh after the Tsunami, the Department of Health and Human Services Honor Award for his work on flu monitoring, and the Shepard award for outstanding scientific contribution to public health for his work on BRFSS.
  
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  "There's been a big narrowing of the gap," said Ali H. Mokdad, Ph.D., CDC's behavioral research branch."It is particularly striking because the toll of every other leading cause of preventable death -- including alcohol, infections, accidents, guns and drugs -- steadily decreased over the same period," Mokdad said.

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  That's why obesity probably will overtake smoking as the leading preventable by 2005, says CDC epidemiologist Ali Mokdad, another study author.

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  Ali Mokdad, a U.S. researcher who headed the UNICEF survey, said delays in some shipments immediately after the killer waves hit had forced youngsters to live off basic rations at first.
  
  Most children now have a more well-rounded diet, he said, but about 12.7 percent of those surveyed weren't getting enough protein and other key nutrients.
  
  The survey of 614 boys and girls, ages 6 months to 5 years, in 19 settlements covered only the area around Banda Aceh, where food and other aid shipments have been plentiful.
  
  However, on Sumatra island's remote west coast, malnutrition is likely far worse because damaged roads, bridges and ports have posed major logistical problems for deliveries, Mokdad said.
  
  He said the prevalence of diarrhea, vomiting and fever among displaced children also raises concerns, because ill youngsters are more likely to suffer malnutrition than healthy ones.About half of those examined complained of diarrhea and fever in the previous two weeks, and about a third had vomited, he said.
  
  "It's a scary finding.Quite honestly, unless we improve water and sanitation in the camps where these children are staying, it's going to get worse," said Mokdad, who is chief of behavioral surveillance at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  
  UNICEF officials said they had discussed their findings with Indonesia's Health Ministry, and were coordinating with other U.N. agencies to distribute emergency supplements like bananas and porridge.
  
  Increased shipments of canned fish and meat, sugar, cooking oil and fruits and vegetables to the Banda Aceh camps are making a difference in the province, where about 4 million people live, about 3 percent, or 120,000 of them children younger than five, Mokdad said.

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  Yet some physicians are reluctant to address the issue with patients, said Ali Mokdad, chief of the CDC behavioral surveillance branch and one of the study's authors.In another study, he found less than half of doctors counsel obese patients to lose weight.

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  Most cases are probably adult-onset diabetes , which can be brought on by being overweight and , like obesity , is largely preventable , said Ali Mokdad , a CDC epidemiologist and study leader.
  
  Obesity-related diseases are already the second-leading causes of premature deaths , behind smoking , implicated in 300 , 000 deaths yearly , Dr. Mokdad said.
  
  His team's findings are based on random telephone surveys with 184 , 450 adults 18 and older.The researchers calculated body-mass index , a height-weight ratio.An index of at least 30 is obese , and at least 25 is considered overweight.
  
  About 27 percent did not engage in any physical activity , and 24 percent said they followed the government recommendation to eat fruits and vegetables at least five times daily.
  
  While most participants said they were trying to maintain or lose weight , only 17.5 percent were following key recommendations to eat less and increase activity.

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