EPC of Obesity & Metabolic Syndrome

Question 1

How to assess presence of obesity?

Answer 1

1. BMI
2. Waist Circumference
3. Skin Folds
4. Adiposity (underwater weighing, dual X-ray absorptionmetry, isotope dolution techniques)

Question 2

What is overweight, obese, mordbidly for BMI?

Answer 2

Overweight: 25-29.9
Obese: 30-39.9
Morbidly Obese: >40

Question 3

Relationship between BMI and all cause morbidity?

Answer 3

As BMI increase, death increases; except with respiratory disease (inverse)

Question 4

Relationship between medical costs and obesity?

Answer 4

when obese, as age increase from 20-60, cost increase (peak at 60); then from 60 to 80, cost decrease