Basics & Definitions
The World Health Organization defines this condition as an abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that may impair health.
Obesity
This definitive metric for obesity is a ratio of body weight in kilograms to height in meters.
Body Mass Index (BMI)
This common restrictive procedure involves surgically removing up to 80% of the stomach, leaving a tube-like shape.
Sleeve Gastrectomy
This term is used to described foods or environment that tend to cause obesity, such as those with high-calorie, low-cost options.
Obesogenic
The specific U.S. state has the lowest obesity rate due to factors like high-altitude metabolism and health-conscious culture.
Colorado
Also known as "apple-shaped" obesity, this morphologic appearance carried a higher risk for hypertension and heart disease.
Android Obesity
This set of vasomotor and GI symptoms occurs when food, especially sugar, moves too quickly from the stomach to the small intestine.
Dumping Syndrome
These two modern lifestyle factors contribute to weight gain by reducing calorie expenditure: one involves long hours of sitting for work and the other is a lack of safe outdoor spaces for physical activity.
Sedentary jobs/lack of resources
The specific medical term describes the dysfunction of adipose tissue that results from increased body fat, leading to the development of metabolic, biochemical, and psychosocial disorders.
Adiposopathy
This respiratory complication involves daytime hypoventilation with hypercapnia and sleep-disordered breathing.
Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome
This non-surgical therapy involves an endoscopically placed device that must be removed within 6 months to prevent rupture.
Intragastric Balloon Therapy
Weight gain often occurs after quitting this habit because the removal of nictoine reduces level of norepinephrine and dopamine, which normally suppress hunger signals.
Smoking Cessation