Overweight (Obesity): Examination

A comprehensive clinical examination is the basis for selecting further diagnostic steps:

• General physical examination – including blood pressure, pulse, body weight, height [determination of BMI for classification of overweight]; the further:
  • Inspection
    • Skin, mucous membranes and sclerae (white part of the eye).
    • Abdomen (abdomen)
      • Shape of the abdomen?
      • Skin color? Skin texture (skin lesions)?
      • Efflorescences?
      • Pulsations? Bowel movements?
      • Visible vessels?
      • Scars? Hernias (fractures)?
  • Auscultation of the heart
  • Auscultation of the lungs [dyspnea]
  • Palpation of the abdomen (tenderness?, tapping pain?, coughing pain?, guarding tension?, hernial orifices?, renal bearing palpation?)
• Cancer screening [due topossible secondary diseases of obesity].
• Health check

Square brackets [ ] indicate possible pathological (pathological) physical findings.