Obesity

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• Synonyms

  • Fat habitus
  • Overweight
  • High body mass index
  • Raised BMI

• Causes

  • Weight gain
  • Overeating
  • Lack of exercise
  • Alcoholism
  • Depression
  • Cushing syndrome
  • Polycystic ovary syndrome
  • Polygenic inheritance
  • Familial combined hyperlipidaemia
  • Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome
  • Dercum disease
  • Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism
  • Albright's osteodystrophy

• Effects

  • Insulin resistance
  • Hypertension
  • Thrombotic pulmonary embolus
  • Cholelithiasis
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome
  • Hypertriglyceridaemia
  • Pre-eclampsia
  • Gestational diabetes
  • Fetal macrosomia
  • Steatosis
  • Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
  • Carcinoma of oesophagus
  • Carcinoma of breast
  • Carcinoma of pancreas
  • Colorectal carcinoma
  • Renal cell carcinoma
  • Carcinoma of thyroid
  • Carcinoma of endometrium
  • Stress incontinence
  • Low testosterone
  • High plasma urate
  • Acanthosis nigricans
  • Benign intracranial hypertension
  • Pickwickian syndrome
  • Pseudocushings
  • Shoulder dystocia
  • Decreased breath sounds
  • Neonatal mortality
  • Varicose veins of leg
  • Deep vein thrombosis
  • Atherosclerosis
  • Neural tube defect
  • Congenital heart malformation
  • Cleft palate
  • Gastrooesophageal reflux disease
  • Meralgia paraesthetica

• Parents

  • Lifestyle

• Treatments

  • Fenfluramine