Diabetes and Obesity Flashcards
What BMI correlates with being class 1 obese?
Class 2 Obese?
Class 3?
What is considered normal?
30-35
35-40
40 and above
18.5-25
What is the estimated annual medical cost of obesity in the U.S?
$147 billion
roughly 21% of annual medical spending in america
What are common complications associated with obesity
Cardiovascular disease Type 2 diabetes Cancers (breast, colon) Hypertension Stroke Increased Fall Risk liver disease Sleep Apnea and respiratory issues Osteoarthritis LBP
What are the two types of Fat?
White Fat: lipid storage and undergoes pathological expansion during obesity
Brown Fat: thermogenic, large amounts of mitochondria, produces a lot of heat during cold weather to protect body and may play a role in body weight regulation
What are the common areas of adipose tissue distribution? What health concerns are associated with each?
Visceral/Intra-abdominal- surrounds abdominal organs and produce more pro-inflammatory cytokines and tumor necrosis factor-alpha, strongly lined to CVD, DM2 and various other conditions
Subcutaneous- not necessarily hazardous to your health
Perivascular (PVAT)
True or False: Adipose tissue is not metabolic and only acts as a storage for excess energy
False, adipose tissue is active with autocrine, paracrine, and endocrine functions and produces adipokines and changes leptin sensitivity and signalling
True or False: Adipokines are all proinflammatory and pathogenic
False, some are pathogenic and induce atherogenesis, insulin resistance, inflammation and endothelial dysfunction but some are beneficial, specifically adiponectin
What are the two main endothelium-derived relaxing and contracting factors and what do they maintain?
Nitric Oxide and endothelin-1
maintain vascular homeostasis
What is the role of adiponectin as it pertains to nitric oxide?
increases NO bioavailability
adiponectin is released by healthy adipocytes
How does obesity effect adiponectin?
obese patients have lower levels of adiponectin and thus the NO bioavailability is low and the pro-inflammatory effects of TNF-a are greater
What is myosteatosis?
What is it’s effect?
What mechanisms are involved?
presence of intermuscular and intramuscular adipose tissue
induces pathological changes to skeletal muscle structure and insulin signaling pathways into the muscle
- build up of fat in muscles (intermuscular fat)
- build up of lipid within myofibers themselves (intramuscular myocellular lipid IMC)
- exacerbating normal ageing processes
- Injury and inflammatory changes; macrophages and T-cell accumulation
How does obesity effect muscles?
- reduces anabolic hormone levels and testosterone which effects ability to hypertrophy
- blunts any beneficial effect of increased loading from exercise or resistance training
- obesity results in an increased secretion and expression of myostatin
- effects insulin sensitivity
True or False: Obese individuals tend to have lesser absolute maximum strength compared to non-obese persons
False, they have greater absolute strength but are actually weaker when normalized to body weight
This is usually in LE more than UE
What is the obesity paradox?
What might causes this paradox?
although obesity is a cardiovascular risk factor in epidemiological studies, a paradox exists in which obese pts are associated with more favorable prognosis compared to lean pts among cohorts of cardiac pts
possibly due to the poor classifcation of ‘obese’ when only using BMI, using BF% or waist:hip ratio to determine obesity may have better accuracy
True or False: While purposeful weight loss in obese pts with CAD did not cause harm and led to marked improvements in coronary risk factors it only led to a small reduction in mortality that was NOT significant statistically.
True
True or False: patients that were high fitness all had roughly the same risk factors for all-cause and CVD mortality regardless of BMI classification
True
True or False: Low fitness individuals who are at a normal BMI have less CVD risk factors than obese high fitness patients
False
True or False: BMI is a good indicator of CVD risk
False, cardiorespiratory fitness is a much better predictive factor and BMI does not have good correlation with CVD risk
When is bariatric surgery indicated?
What is the rate of resolution or reduction of comorbidities after bariatric surgery?
when pt is over 40 on BMI scale
86% for diabetes
70% for hyperlipidemia
79% for hypertension
84% for sleep apnea
True or False: non-surgery therapy for weight loss is has been shown to be more effective at reducing metabolic syndrome than an adjustable gastric band
False, the LAP-band was more effective at reducing metabolic syndrome and improved pts quality of life
LAP-band also has been shown to have few cases of post-op complications (~4.5%)