Medical Hazards of Obesity

Overview

Journal Ann Intern Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 1993 Oct 1

PMID 8363192

Citations 211

Authors

F X Pi-Sunyer

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Abstract

The medical hazards of obesity are discussed. Risks include insulin resistance, diabetes mellitus, hypertriglyceridemia, decreased levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and increased levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Obesity is also associated with gallbladder disease and some forms of cancer as well as sleep apnea, chronic hypoxia and hypercapnia, and degenerative joint disease. Obesity is an independent risk factor for death from coronary heart disease. A central distribution of body fat enhances the risk for most of these conditions.

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