Obesity and Eating Disorders Flashcards
What is obesity?
- life long, progressive life-threatening, costly, genetically related, multi-factorial disease of excess fat storage with multiple co-morbidities
What is the disease risk associated with the different BMI classifications?
Underweight ( 40) extremely high
What are some of the health consequences with increased risk for overweight and obese individuals
- HTN
- osteoarthritis
- dyslipidemia
- T2DM
- coronary heart disease
- stroke
- gallbladder disease
- sleep apnea and respiratory problems
- cancer (endometrial, breast, colon)
What are the NCEP ATP III characteristics of metabolic syndrome
abdominal obesity glc intolerance/insulin resistance HTN Atherogenic dyslipidemia proinflammatory/prothrombic state
What is the clinical identification criteria of metabolic syndrome (NCEP ATP III)
Risk Factor Defining Level Abdominal Obesity (waist circumference) - Men >102 cm (> 40 in) - Women > 88 cm (> 35 in) TG > or = 150 mg/dL HDL-C - Men < 40 mg/dL - Women < 50 mg/dL BP > 130 / > 85 mm Hg FPG >110 mg/dL *** Diagnosis when 3 or more RF are present
What are the physical, economic, psychological, and social reasons to treat obesity?
- improvements in medical comorbidities
- decrease in mortality and morbidity
- improvement in QOL
Physical: public seating limitations, personal hygiene
Economic: employment and education discrimination
Psychological: low self esteem and depression
Social: Harassment and prejudice
What are the risk factors the can and cannot be modified for obesity?
Cannot be modified: genetic, metabolic, biochemical
Can be modified: behavioral, psychological, environmental
What diet therapy methods are used to promote wt loss?
1) Low calorie diet- Step 1
- 1000-1200 kcal for women, 1200- 1600 kcal for men or women over 165# or regular PA
- decrease to 1200 if not losing wt at 1600 kcal
- if hungry, try inc 100-200 kcal/d
2) very low calorie diet = 800 kcal/d
- not routinely used
What are the physical activity recommendations for obese pts?
- initially moderate levels of PA (30-45 min, 3-5 days/wk)
- start w/10 min, 3 days a week, then build to 30-45 min of more intense walking at least 3 days a week
- *General rule of thumb: 100 kcal/1 mile of running or walking
What is the etiology and dx criteria for Anorexia nervosa?
- etiology: sexual abuse survivors, fraternal twins and 1st degree relatives prone, 90% females
- Dx criteria: BW < 85% IBW
-intense fear of losing control, over wt, becoming fat, distorted
body image, amenorrhea
What are some of the physiological effects of anorexia nervosa?
- hypotension
- dizziness
- dry skin
- decreased bone mineral density
- delayed gastric emptying, constipation
- amenorrhea
- bradycardia
- cardiac arrhythmias
- electrocardiographic abnormalities
- muscle wasting
- cold hands and feet
- acrocyanosis
What is the etiology and dx criteria of bulimia nervosa?
Etiology:
- sexual abuse survivors prone
- fraternal twins and 1st degree relatives prone
Dx criteria:
- binge eating (at least 2x/wk for at least 3 months); may be as much as 5-10x/day
- purging- getting that shit out through laxatives, vomiting, excessive exercise
- obsessive w/ body wt and shape
What is binge eating?
- eating in a discrete period of time (w/in any 2 hr period) an amt of food that is definitely larger than what most people would eat during a similar period of time and under similar circumstances
- a sense of lack of control over eating during the episode
- a feeling that one cannot stop eating or control what or how much one is eating
What are the physiological effects of Bulimia nervosa?
- esophagitis
- gastroesophageal reflux disease
- esophageal tearing
- constipation
- laxative dependence
- callus on back of hand
- loss of dental enamel
- dental caries
- salivary gland enlargement
- syrup of ipecac (active ingredient: Emitine): cardiotoxic, long 1/2 life, accumulate in cardiac muscle, can cause:
- cardiomyopathy
- cardiac arrhythmias
- electrocardiographic abnormalities
What are the subtypes of BN?
- Purging type:
- person regularly engages in self-induced vomiting or misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas
- Nonpurging type:
- person has inappropriate compensatory behaviors
- fasting, excessive exercise, has not purged
- person has inappropriate compensatory behaviors