Obesity Kulik Flashcards
(blank) is the accepted standard measure of overweight and obesity for children 2 years of age and older, and adults
BMI
How do you calculate BMI
weight/(height squared)
What is underweight BMI Normal? Overweight? Obese? Obese 1? obese 2? obese 3?
less than 18.5 normal 18.5-25 Overweight 25-29.9 Obese greater than 30 30-34.9 35-39.9 greater than 40
For asians: overweight=BMI is between (blank-blank) and Obesity is greater than (blank)
23 and 24.9
25
Very muscular people may have high BMI. T or F
True (they are not obese but on paper may seem that way)
Very short persons may have (blank) BMIs even if they arent fat
high
Will elder people have more or less fat than their BMIs designate?
more
For a BMI greater than 25-35, a waist circumference of (blank) for men and (blank) for women Is associated with a greater risk of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and dyslipidemia and CHD.
102 cm
88 cm
Where do you measure waist circumference?
at iliac crest
Are healthy waist sizes different for a different ethnicity?
yes
What is considered metabolic syndrome?
having 3 of the following: abdominal obesity >100 fasting glucose >150 triglycerides < 40 men/50 wome reduced HDL cholesterol > 130,85 Blood pressure
What is considered underweight for a child?
less than 5th percentile for age and sex
What is considered normal weight for a child?
obese?
severe obesity?
5th-85th percentile
greater than 95th
greater than 99th
Children with severe obesity represent approximately (blank) percent of children and adolescents in the United States, with the highest prevalence in which ethnicities?
four
Black and Mexican-American youth.
Are people self diagnosing themselves as obese as of late?
nope, they used to do it, but not anymore
Physicians diagnose (blank) out of 5 obese patients as having the disease
1
Describe the trend of:
overweight?
obese?
extremely obese?
same through the years
Explosion of amounts of people
increasing steadily
Black men are (blank) obese than white men
less
Black women are (blank) obese than white women
more
Hispanic men and women are (blank) obese than white men and women
more
What ethnicities is childhood obesity common
american indians
non-hispanic blacks
mexican americans
What is the major cause of obesity?
environment
What is monogenic forms of obesity?
Several rare forms of obesity result from spontaneous mutations in single genes, so-called monogenic mutations (six single gene mutations known so far)
What is this:
This is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner and produces extreme, early-onset obesity associated with intense hyperphagia
Resting and free living energy expenditure are normal
Hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism with delayed but spontaneous pubertal development occurs
leptin deficiency
