Obesity in the elderly

Obesity is a pathological state in which the body has an increased number of fat cells or an excessive amount of fat accumulation and / or abnormal distribution in the body. On the other hand, obesity is a complex of many complicated conditions. For example, it needs to be aggregated with type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, ischemic heart disease, etc., so it is a chronic metabolic disorder. Those who have no obvious cause can be called simple obesity. Obesity can also be used as one of the clinical manifestations of certain diseases (such as hypothalamic-pituitary inflammation, tumors, trauma, Cushing's syndrome, hypothyroidism, hypogonadism), also known as secondary obesity. Elderly obesity refers to obesity that occurs or exists in older people over 60 years of age.

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