title: [Obesity: entrance port to multimorbidity].
abstract: Obesity is an essential risk factor for hypertension, coronary heart disease and stroke as well as for metabolic disturbances, especially for type 2 diabetes, hyper- and dyslipidemia, and it is responsible for the metabolic syndrome with insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia. Disturbances in the lung function are also induced by obesity, as a higher risk for arthrosis on the lower extremities. Some oncological diseases like breast-, endometrial-, and prostatic cancer are associated with obesity. It is evident, that the fat distribution plays an important role in the development of obesity associated diseases: the accumulation of visceral fat has a higher risk as the peripheral fat, probably due to the different metabolism.
authors.affiliation: Diabeteszentrum Bad Neustadt a. d. Saale, Deutschland.
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authors.lastname: Sailer
mesh_terms: D001823:Body Composition; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications* / Q000401:mortality; D012307:Risk Factors