To determine the degree of overweight, using the Body Mass Index (BMI), which is calculated easily (Calculate your BMI)
If this is more than 40 (Kg/cms2), we are talking about morbid obesity, but also in cases where there is aggregate pathology , such as hypertension, diabetes, sleep apnea, joint problems, or other, it is considered morbid obesity from 35 BMI.
The importance of morbid obesity is a serious disease which is a life-threatening, people who have a morbid obesity has twelve times more likely to die than a normal person.
It is said that a morbid obesity complicated aggregated with any disease, diagnosed at age 20, has little chance to reach fifty years.
Many of them may show symptoms such as gastroesophageal reflux roncadores large, sometimes arouse drowned, is what is called sleep apnea, severe respiratory distress that means having virtually collapsed lung. In some cases suffer what is called Pickwick syndrome, and that is that the low ventilation can be seated asleep, sometimes at risk as driving while awaiting the green light at the traffic lights.
Even the morbid obese have a lower fertility, women suffer from menstrual disorders and a higher incidence of some cancers like breast and uterine cancer. It is also the most common heart attack and brain attacks, this must be added to the psychological problems that usually drag, especially if they have been since obese children.
Many morbid obese have a hard time establishing a relationship of partner satisfaction at the high level of insecurity they generated their illness, as well as some degree of social sanction that experience, because in general are not well accepted by any means, even by his family. Usually the obese are relegated socially.
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