Open AccessOBESITY: MODERN VIEW ON THE PROBLEM (lecture, part 1)
Author(s) -
N. M. Turchenko,
S. Yu. Turchenko
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
problemy zdorovʹâ i èkologii
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2708-6011
pISSN - 2220-0967
DOI - 10.51523/2708-6011.2014-11-3-7
Subject(s) - obesity , overweight , body mass index , genetic predisposition , medicine , endocrinology , classification of obesity , body weight , degeneration (medical) , metabolic syndrome , disease , physiology , fat mass , pathology
Obesity is a chronic multifactorial heterogeneous disease characterized by excessive accumulation of body fat (in men - at least 20 % and in women - 25 % of body weight, body mass index (BMI) is more than 25-30). Obesity can also be described as a metabolic disorder in individuals with genetic predisposition leading to excessive deposition of fat in the body weight, overweight being more than 10 % compared to the physiological norm, and may be accompanied by fatty degeneration of internal organs - heart, liver, kidneys.