Samantha P. Flanagan, DO, Assistant Professor of Clinical Family and Community Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, provided perspective to HealthCentral on truncal obesity. Truncal obesity, which is also known as central or abdominal obesity, is extra weight carried around the waistline.
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