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Obesity
Obesity
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Pathology
Graduate
07/07/2014

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Obesity has high morbidity and mortality with
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hyperinsulinemia, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, coronary heart disease, gallbalddaer disease, certain malignancies
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dyslipidemia
Definition
fat in the blood
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Primary cause of obesity
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excessive calorie intake and underactivity
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Assortative mating
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2 overweight people start a family, raising overweight children, who have overweight children and so on
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Essential fat for Women
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10-13%
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Essential Fat for Men
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1-3%
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Fat for female athletes
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14-20%
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Fat for male athletes
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6-13%
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fat for fitness: females
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21-24%
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fat for fitness: males
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14-17%
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average fat for women
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25-31%
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average fat for men
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18-24%
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fat for obese women
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32%+
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fat for obese men
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25%+
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Obesity is most often related to
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overnutrition
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Obesity is also related to resistances to what
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insulin, leptin, cortisol
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which hormone alters metabolism and also stimulates an appetite for high calorie comfort foods and deposition of abdominal food
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cortisol
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Stress causes the hypothalamus to singal the pituitary to release adrenocorticotrophic horome which stimulates _____ to release ______
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adrenal cortex, cortisol
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As the amount of fat stored in adipocytes rises, a protein, known as _____, is released into the blood and signals to the brain that the body has enough to eat
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leptin
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Most overweight people have high levels of _____ in their blood stream, indicating that there are other factors affecting satiety
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leptin
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Most obese individuals are thought to be leptin resistant and have been found to have ____ levels of leptin
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high
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What is ghrelin
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hormone produced in the stomach
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WHat is the role of ghrelin
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modulates short-term appetite control, based on the stretch of the stomach
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Ghrelin, leptin, and other mediators act on what
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hypothalamus
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region of the brain central to the regulation of food intake and energy expenditure
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hypothalamus
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What is metabolic syndrome
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non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, high triglyceride levels
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Which condition does obesity have the strongest link to
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type 2 diabetes
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What causes insulin resistance in obese?
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increases in body fat
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Excess body fat underlies ___% of cases of diabetes in men and ___% of cases in women
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64,77
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Health consequesnces as a result in increased fat mass
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osteoarthritis, obstructive sleep apnea, social stigmatization
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Health consequences due to an increase in the number of fat cells
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diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
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Obesity PTI
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promote activity, reduce pain, restore function, with joint protection and safety during exercise
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