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obesity

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Also known as corpulence, overfatness, fatness, obese, human obesity

Obesity is a medical condition, considered by multiple organizations to be a disease, in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that it can have negative effects on health. People are classified as obese when their body mass index (BMI)—a person's weight divided by the square of the person's height—is over ; the range is defined as overweight. Some East Asian countries use lower values to calculate obesity. Obesity is a major cause of disability and is correlated with various diseases and conditions, particularly cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apne

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Obesity is a medical condition classified under ICD-9-CM code 278.00. It is categorized in the NCI Thesaurus as C3283 and in the International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC 2) as T82. The term appears in the Commons category "Obesity" and is linked to identifiers in the Disease Ontology and Human Phenotype Ontology.

The subject is associated with a WordLift URL at data.medicalrecords.com. In academic literature, it corresponds to a PubMed query result with a count of 545,859. Additionally, the concept is referenced by 2,984 other encyclopedia articles within the Vinony graph.

Synthesized by Vinony from 9 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, PubMed, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Key facts

Medical condition.causes
Excessive consumption of energy-dense foods, sedentary work and lifestyles and lack of physical activity, changes in modes of transportation, urbanization, lack of supportive policies, lack of access to a healthy diet, genetics
Medical condition.diagnosis
BMI >
Medical condition.prevention
Societal changes, changes in the food industry, access to a healthy lifestyle, personal choices
Medical condition.treatment
Diet, exercise, medications, surgery
Medical condition.prognosis
Reduced life expectancy
Medical condition.frequency
Over 1 billion / 12.5% (2022)
Medical condition.deaths
2.8 million people per year
Medical condition.name
Obesity
Medical condition.image
File:FatCT2008 (cropped).JPG
Medical condition.caption
Abdominal computed tomography of an obese person showing excess abdominal adiposity
Medical condition.field
Endocrinology, bariatrics
Medical condition.symptoms
Increased fat
Medical condition.complications
Cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, certain types of cancer, osteoarthritis, depression

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Research

545,859 papers

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Encyclopedic overview

40 sections
Contents
  • Classification
  • Effects on health
  • Mortality
  • Morbidity
  • Metrics of health
  • Survival paradox
  • Causes
  • Diet
  • Sedentary lifestyle
  • Genetics
  • Other illnesses
  • Drug-induced obesity
  • Social determinants
  • Gut bacteria
  • Other factors
  • Pathophysiology
  • Management
  • Health policy
  • Medical interventions
  • Medication
  • Surgery
  • Epidemiology
  • History
  • Etymology
  • Historical attitudes
  • The arts
  • Society and culture
  • Economic impact
  • Socioeconomic status
  • Size acceptance
  • Industry influence on research
  • Reports
  • Childhood obesity
  • Statistics
  • Other animals
  • See also
  • References
  • Citations
  • Further reading
  • External links

Obesity is a medical condition, considered by multiple organizations to be a disease, in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that it can have negative effects on health. People are classified as obese when their body mass index (BMI)—a person's weight divided by the square of the person's height—is over ; the range is defined as overweight. Some East Asian countries use lower values to calculate obesity. Obesity is a major cause of disability and is correlated with various diseases and conditions, particularly cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, certain types of cancer, and osteoarthritis.

Obesity has individual, socioeconomic, and environmental causes. Some known causes are diet, low physical activity, automation, urbanization, genetic susceptibility, medications, mental disorders, economic policies, endocrine disorders, and exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “obesity” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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