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obesity
medical disorder
- Also called:
- corpulence or fatness
- Related Topics:
- nutritional disease
- exercise
- pickwickian syndrome
- central obesity
- childhood obesity
Recent News
June 1, 2024, 8:36 AM ET (Medical Xpress)
Study shows risk for heart attack and stroke increases in people with obesity for a decade or more
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May 23, 2024, 10:55 AM ET (Medical Xpress)
Children from less affluent families are less active, have poorer diets and suffer from obesity, says report
May 21, 2024, 5:07 AM ET (Medical Xpress)
Significant gaps between science of obesity and the care patients receive, say experts
obesity, excessive accumulation of body fat, usually caused by the consumption of more calories than the body can use. The excess calories are then stored as fat, or adipose tissue. Overweight, if moderate, is not necessarily obesity, particularly in muscular or large-boned individuals. Obesity was traditionally defined as an increase in body weight that was greater than 20 percent of an individual’s ideal body weight—the weight associated with the lowest risk of death, as determined by certain factors, such as age, height, and gender. Based on these factors, overweight could then be defined as a 15–20 percent increase over ideal ...(100 of 2091 words)