Obesity is a condition that occurs when a person is overweight or obese. Once installed, the disease affects your health.
About half of the population is obese.
“Obesity is often associated with severe chronic diseases, including metabolic syndrome, arthritis and some cancers. In Romania, the incidence of obesity is about 17% in rural areas and 20% in urban areas, being more common in women, while in children it varies between 5 – 10%.
Obesity is the most well-known metabolic disease with an increasing incidence. Recently, according to the World Health Organization, it has affected a worrying percentage of over 50% of the adult population “, said Dr. Andreea Purec-Popescu.
The doctor claims that the correct diet established since childhood, accompanied by regular physical activity can help prevent the development of obesity and its complications.
Health problems caused by obesity
Depending on the severity, degree and type of its distribution, obesity is associated with multiple complications.
Endocrinologist Andreea Purec-Popescu presented the main health problems caused by obesity:
1. METABOLIC DISORDERS: over 80% of patients with type 2 diabetes are associated with obesity, other possible metabolic complications being those of protein metabolism, such as hyperuricemia and gout.
2. CARDIOVASCULAR COMPLICATIONS such as hypertension or congestive heart failure. Obesity increases the risk of mortality by 162% compared to normal people by affecting lipid metabolism and the appearance of atherosclerosis.
3. VARICES OF THE LOWER LIMBS appear statistically in two thirds of the obese population.
4. RESPIRATORY COMPLICATIONS caused by the forward movement of the center of gravity of the body which causes a pronounced kyphosis, increased intra-abdominal pressure and high mass of abdominal fat which raises the diaphragm. The predominant symptom is dyspnea, which is common in ventilatory dysfunction, pulmonary hypertension, respiratory failure, sleep apnea syndrome, Pickwick syndrome.
5. COMPLICATIONS OF THE LOCOMOTOR SYSTEM such as chronic degenerative rheumatism and the development of osteoarthritis. Obesity is accompanied by a dystrophic condition of most tissues, of which we note in particular: thinning of the epidermis, loss of dermal elasticity, favoring the appearance of stretch marks, muscular hypotonia, weakening of tendons and myelo-tendon junctions, the latter factors can accelerate cartilage wear. articulate.
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6. HEPATIC AND BILIARY COMPLICATIONS. Not surprisingly, liver cirrhosis may be more common in obese people, probably due to a diet high in carbohydrates and low in protein and vitamin B1, contributing to liver damage, especially in obesity associated with alcoholism. In obese liver function disorders, as well as histological changes (related to the appearance of tissues) regress to extinction with weight loss. Another common complication is gallstones and the technical risks of treating it.
7. PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS such as depression and phobias.
8. GYNECOLOGICAL AND OBSTRETIC COMPLICATIONS, INFERTILITY Amenorrhea (lack of menstruation) or Polycystic Ovary Syndrome affects a large number of obese women. Childbirth in obese women is accompanied by accidents and complications.
9. ONCOLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS. Obesity is associated with at least 13 types of cancer, the most common being genital and breast cancers, cancers of the digestive tract.
10. ENDOCRINE DISORDERS. A number of hormonal disorders are associated with obesity, the most common of which are disorders of the thyroid gland (hypothyroidism, autoimmune thyroiditis) and adrenal gland (hypercorticism, Cushing’s syndrome).
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