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10932674

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-8-21
pubmed:abstractText
Obesity is an extremely challenging medical condition because it is a multifactorial disease that lies at the interface between the biology of body energy regulation and an environment (physical and sensory) that has been increasingly characterized as 'hostile to good health'. The deceptively straightforward anthropomorphic definition of obesity is the excessive accumulation of body fat. However, obesity is a chronic disease that is much more than excessive fat. It involves genetic predisposition and metabolic, hormonal and behavioural aspects and results in significant morbidity, reduced quality of life, discrimination and early mortality. The development and maintenance of obesity can be considered to result from the integration, or the accumulation, of small daily errors in energy balance over several months and years. The biological factors involved increase the predisposition toward the expansion of adipose tissue mass together with the consequences of an environment that promotes increased food intake and decreased physical activity. Multiple aetiologies may result in similar degrees of obesity.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:author
pubmed:volume
13
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
13-30
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
The pathogenesis of obesity.
pubmed:affiliation
Center for Human Nutrition, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver 80262, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review