Obesity, defined as a body mass index (BMI) ≥30 kg/m2, is a complex chronic disease characterized by an excessive accumulation of fat or adipose tissue in the body.1 According to a report by the Non-Communicable Disease Risk Factor Collaboration, the prevalence of obesity increased worldwi...
Obesity is a condition in which excess fat has accumulated in the body. The only widely accepted criteria for obesity are based on body mass index (BMI, also called Quetelet index), which is defined as the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters. According to the...
Obesity is defined as an excessive accumulation of body fat, believed to contribute to a variety of health disorders, including cardiovascular disease. Moreover, Obesity is the excess of body fat resulting in a body mass index (a ratio of weight to height) of 30 or more; having a body ...
(Obesityisdefinedasexcessbodyfat.)體重增加導致肥胖的生理機制 熱量攝取 熱量消耗 大於 肥胖到底是怎麼回事？•脂肪堆積 –肥胖是身體儲存有過多的脂肪組織，脂肪組織主要存在皮下組織、腸繫膜、臟器周圍等處，由脂肪細胞構成。–肥胖者的脂肪細胞較大，脂肪細胞數目亦較多。–身體儲存和製造的三酸甘油酯過多，造成...
Obesity, defined as a body mass index (BMI) greater than 30 kg/m21, has become a major epidemic in industrial and emerging countries. The prevalence of obesity has doubled since the 1980s and it is now estimated that 600 million adults worldwide are obese2. Obesity affects many organs of...
A unique clinical presentation,sarcopenic obesityis defined as the co-existence ofsarcopeniaand obesity [37–39]. The condition can be defined based on values of ASMI/height squared, ASMI/bodyweight,BMI,body fat percentage, and/or waist circumference [39]. ...
Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health. A body mass index (BMI) over 25 is considered overweight, and over 30 is obese. The issue has grown to epidemic proportions, with over four million people dying each year as a result...
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) classification, 'normal weight' is defined as BMI between 18.5 and 25 kg/m 2 , 'overweight' is BMI between 25 and 30 kg/m 2 , and obesity is defined as a BMI of 30 kg/m 2 or greater.DefinitionObesity is a condition in which excess...
Obesity has been recognized as a global epidemic by WHO, followed by many empirical evidences to prove its infectiousness. However, the inter-person spreading dynamics of obesity are seldom studied. A distinguishing feature of the obesity epidemic is that it is driven by a social contagion process...
defined as a 15–20 percent increase over ideal body weight. However, today the definitions of overweight and obesity are based primarily on measures of height and weight—notmorbidity. These measures are used to calculate a number known asbody mass index(BMI). This number, which is central ...