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obesity
medical disorder
- Also called:
- corpulence or fatness
- Related Topics:
- nutritional disease
- exercise
- pickwickian syndrome
- childhood obesity
- central obesity
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June 10, 2024, 5:43 AM ET (Medical Xpress)
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June 2, 2024, 6:22 AM ET (Medical Xpress)
Study shows risk for heart attack and stroke increases in people with obesity for a decade or more
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)