Brief overview Prognosis: Prognosis is often unfavorable without therapy and due to existing secondary diseases, life expectancy decreases. Treatment: Conservative multimodal therapy, surgical interventions (bariatric surgery such as gastric reduction), obesity cure. Causes: Unhealthy diet, lack of exercise Prevention: Early nutritional and behavioral therapy and weight loss for existing overweight and obesity up to grade … Morbid obesity: Causes, treatment
Brief overview Treatment: Dietary changes and exercise program, for example as part of nutritional and behavioral therapy, or medication in the case of severe obesity. Diagnosis: Determination of BMI value and percentile as well as waist-hip circumference, physical examinations, ultrasound and blood tests if necessary, behavioral diagnostics Causes: Excessive and unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, … Childhood Obesity: Therapy and Causes
Brief overview Symptoms: Fatigue, reduced ability to work under pressure, frequent fatigue, profuse sweating, back and joint pain (for example, in the knee), sleep disturbances, snoring, shortness of breath (from high stress to shortness of breath). Diagnosis: Determination of BMI value, physical examinations including determination of waist-to-hip ratio, blood pressure measurement, electrocardiogram (ECG), blood tests … Overweight: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment
What is an obesity cure and what are its goals? “Cure” is basically an outdated term for medical measures that serve to prevent or rehabilitate (“rehab”) after illness. Accordingly, the official names for the cure are preventive service and rehabilitation, and the term curative procedure is also in common use. Preventive services are health care … Obesity Treatment: Requirements and Objectives
