Obesity Kulik

Question 1

(blank) is the accepted standard measure of overweight and obesity for children 2 years of age and older, and adults

Answer 1

BMI

Question 2

How do you calculate BMI

Answer 2

weight/(height squared)

Question 3

What is underweight BMI
Normal?
Overweight?
Obese?
Obese 1?
obese 2?
obese 3?

Answer 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

Question 4

For asians: overweight=BMI is between (blank-blank) and Obesity is greater than (blank)

Answer 4

23 and 24.9

25

Question 5

Very muscular people may have high BMI. T or F

Answer 5

True (they are not obese but on paper may seem that way)

Question 6

Very short persons may have (blank) BMIs even if they arent fat

Answer 6

high

Question 7

Will elder people have more or less fat than their BMIs designate?

Answer 7

more

Question 8

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.

Answer 8

102 cm

88 cm

Question 9

Where do you measure waist circumference?

Answer 9

at iliac crest

Question 10

Are healthy waist sizes different for a different ethnicity?

Answer 10

yes

Question 11

What is considered metabolic syndrome?

Answer 11

having 3 of the following:
abdominal obesity
>100 fasting glucose
>150 triglycerides
< 40 men/50 wome reduced HDL cholesterol
> 130,85 Blood pressure

Question 12

What is considered underweight for a child?

Answer 12

less than 5th percentile for age and sex

Question 13

What is considered normal weight for a child?
obese?
severe obesity?

Answer 13

5th-85th percentile
greater than 95th
greater than 99th

Question 14

Children with severe obesity represent approximately (blank) percent of children and adolescents in the United States, with the highest prevalence in which ethnicities?

Answer 14

four

Black and Mexican-American youth.

Question 15

Are people self diagnosing themselves as obese as of late?

Answer 15

nope, they used to do it, but not anymore

Question 16

Physicians diagnose (blank) out of 5 obese patients as having the disease

Answer 16

1

Question 17

Describe the trend of:
overweight?
obese?
extremely obese?

Answer 17

same through the years
Explosion of amounts of people
increasing steadily

Question 18

Black men are (blank) obese than white men

Answer 18

less

Question 19

Black women are (blank) obese than white women

Answer 19

more

Question 20

Hispanic men and women are (blank) obese than white men and women

Answer 20

more

Question 21

What ethnicities is childhood obesity common

Answer 21

american indians
non-hispanic blacks
mexican americans

Question 22

What is the major cause of obesity?

Answer 22

environment

Question 23

What is monogenic forms of obesity?

Answer 23

Several rare forms of obesity result from spontaneous mutations in single genes, so-called monogenic mutations (six single gene mutations known so far)

Question 24

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

Answer 24

leptin deficiency

Question 25

How do we fix leptin deficiency?

Answer 25

injected leptin replacement :))))