(1) Obesity syndrome
Obesity syndrome often occurs in obese patients with moderate degree or above, such as unhealthy syndrome, cardiovascular system symptoms, endocrine and metabolic disorders, digestive system symptoms and so on. Once you lose weight, the related symptoms will also be alleviated.
(2) Obesity complications
Obesity often leads to serious complications, such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, gallstones, gout, proliferative osteoarthritis and so on. WHO recently reported the relative risks of some health problems in obese people. The relative risk of obese people suffering from type 2 diabetes, gallbladder disease, dyslipidemia, metabolic syndrome, dyspnea and sleep apnea is greatly increased. The risk of coronary heart disease, hypertension, osteoarthritis, hyperuricemia and gout is moderately increased; Hormone sensitivity and the risk of fatal diseases such as gastrointestinal tumors and other non-fatal diseases are slightly increased.
(3) the influence of childhood obesity
Obesity in children is not only a risk factor for obesity and cardiovascular diseases in adults, but also leads to impaired cardiopulmonary function, decreased muscle aerobic metabolism, low efficiency and low exercise ability in children. Taiwan Province's research shows that 22% of obese children have hypertension and 16.8% have abnormal glucose tolerance. Mental health is also a problem for obese children, because obesity is regarded as a disability by themselves and others. Some people think that obese patients are more prone to psychological disorders, and adolescence is the most dangerous stage.
(4) Economic loss of obesity
In the United States, Australia and the Netherlands, direct expenses (expenses for preventing and treating obesity and related diseases), indirect expenses (economic losses caused by obesity and premature death of diseases) and intangible losses (social and personal losses caused by obesity and related diseases) account for about 4% of health expenditure.