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Read the following passages and answer the questions that follow:

By the time he was nine years old, Aftab Solanki weighed 49 kilos, nearly twice the normal weight for boys his age. His doting parents and neighbours considered him "healthy", often describing or calling Aftab "cute".

His sluggishness and increasing appetite, his periodic breathlessness, occasional dizzy spells and pain in the knees were all dismissed as things that would disappear once he grew up. "But as his weight kept increasing, we became concerned and wanted to consult a good doctor," says Aftab's father Mohammed Ramzan Solanki.

Kids like Aftab are part of a fast-growing national urban epidemic seen over the past few decades. It's an irony that despite there being more undernourished children in India than in any other country, we also have millions of obese and overweight urban school children. And experts say these obese children will one day face severe medical consequences. Compared to children of normal weight, obese ones face several times the risk for developing high blood pressure, respiratory complications, Type-2 diabetes (the most common form of disease) cardiovascular disease and cancer and indeed, much reduced life-spans.

"The medical consequences of obesity are seen at all ages, even among kids," says Dr. Vaman Khadilkar, consultant pediatric endocrinologist at Jehangir Hospital, Pune. "Our youngest Type-2 diabetic is six-year-old, while a hypertensive patient is just eight. High levels of cholesterol and triglycerides-both of which increase the risk of cardiovascular disease-are seen in children very frequently nowadays, unlike in the past. And we routinely see these high levels in obese children."

Aftab's sluggishness, increasing appetite, pain in the knees etc. were all dismissed because of the expected_______once he grew up.

A) disappeared of these conditions

B) disappearance of these conditions

C) appearance of these conditions

D) disappear of these conditions