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...
(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...
Obesity is an 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.
Obesity is defined to some extent by measuring Body Mass Index (BMI).People become obese by consumption of excess calories, imbalance between calories intake and calories outgoing, leading a sedentary life, lack of sleep , disturbances in lipid metabolism and intake of medications that put on ...
Obesity, defined by an excessive body mass index (BMI), is increasingly prevalent globally (Kang et al., 2019; Montanari et al., 2017). Obesity is often accompanied by comorbidities and chronic disease, and thus its effective treatment is a public health imperative. Previous studies have shown...
General obesity was defined as BMI ⩾30 kg m−2, whereas central obesity was defined using waist circumference cutoff points for Ethnic Central and South American populations: ⩾80 cm for women and ⩾90 cm for men.23 The anthropometric assessment (BMI and waist circumference) ...
The main advantage of BMI is ease of calculation. All you need to know someone’s BMI is a scale and ruler. Another advantage of using BMI as a basic indicator of health in a clinical setting is that it has been used for decades in manyresearch studies, which have consistently sho...