title: [Current views concerning the significance of obesity].
abstract: The article presents a new view on relations between obesity and ischaemic heart disease. The place of obesity among cardiovascular risk factors has been specified. Definition of obesity, methods of its diagnosis, its etiopathogenesis and therapeutic approach to it (according to statement of AHA) have been discussed.
authors.affiliation: II Kliniki Kardiologii Instytutu Kardiologii Collegium Medicum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w Krakowie.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Szczygieł
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kolasińska-Kloch
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dembińska-Kieć
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000209:etiology*; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000378:metabolism / Q000628:therapy; D012307:Risk Factors