Publikation Adipositas: Komorbiditäten

• Research unit: SFOPH
• Project number: 04.001103

Key words (German)

Adipositas
SuisseBalance
Publikation
Gesundheitsförderung

Short description (German)

Vorbereitung eines Publikationsmanuskripts

Project aims (German)

Publikation in wissenschaftlichem Journal

Abstract (English)

Obesity represents today's major medical and public health problem and is gaining worldwide concern as a global obesity epidemic begins to enfold. As more and more people put on excess weight the incidence of obesity associated diabetes type 2, coronary heart disease, hypertension, and depression is increasing and threatens to overwhelm our health care budgets. These effects of obesity result predominantly from two factors: the increased body (fat) mass and the increased secretion of insulin. This concept of the pathogenesis of diabetes allows a differentiation of the disadvantages of obesity into those produced by the mass of adipose tissue and those related to metabolic effects. In the first category are the mental disturbances resulting from the stigma associated with obesity, sleep apnoea that results partially from increased abdominal fat deposits, and osteoarthritis resulting from wearing and tearing of joints from carrying a massively increased body weight. The second effect includes the metabolic effects from hypermetabolism leading to insulin resistance. The strong relationship of increased abdominal fat with diabetes makes this consequence particularly important for increased health care costs. The full realisation of the seriousness of what impact the present obesity epidemic could have on the health status of the Swiss population as well the social and economic consequences, is now being recognised

Transfer and application (German)

Wissenschaftliche Publikation

Publications / Results (German)

In Vorbereitung