title: [Symptomatic obesity--classification, pathogenesis, diagnosis and therapy].
abstract: Obesity is mainly classified by two types, such as simple obesity and symptomatic obesity. Symptomatic obesity is not so rare, which occupies by approximately 10-20% among whole obese patients. Especially, when we encounter high-grade obese patients with BMI more than 35 kg/m2, we have to carefully find out masked symptomatic obesity through medical examinations. Symptomatic obesity is divided into 4 groups according to its pathogenesis, that include endocrinological-, hereditary-, central- and pharmacological obesity. Therapy to the disorder is, in principle, the treatment to original diseases leading to obesity, in addition to dietary-, exercise-, behavioral therapy required to simple obesity. We want to emphasize that the adequate discovery of symptomatic obesity, by our careful medical checks and various laboratory examinations could determine QOL and life prognosis of those obese patients.
authors: Department of Internal Medicine (Diabetes, Endocrinology and Hematology), Dokkyo Medical University Koshigaya Hospital.
authors: Toshihiko
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authors: Inukai
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D015992:Body Mass Index; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D011788:Quality of Life; D012307:Risk Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome