PHYSICIAN LECTURE: OBESITY PANDEMIC

8/5/2008
Athanassios Petrotos, M.D.
Surgical Specialists of Greenwich
Greenwich Hospital

Slide 1) In the United States obesity is the most common chronic disease, affecting one quarter of the population, including children, and its incidence has been steadily increasing the last few decades. In Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Middle East, the occurrence of obesity appears to be increasing and is now between 10 and 20 percent.

Slide 2) W.H.O. definitions.

Slide3) What happened the last few decades?

Slide 4) Current Estimates

Slides 5) and 6) Young people and Obesity

Slides 7), 8), 9) Etiology

Slide 10) Hormones involved in physiologic regulation of body weight

Slide 11) Dietary Factors

Slides 12-15) Comorbidities

Slide 16) Social Implications of Obesity

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