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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Ibnosina Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences 2016; 08(01): 3-14
DOI: 10.4103/1947-489X.210213
Review

Measuring obesity: Fat or fit!

Nasr Anaizi
Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Benghazi, Benghazi, Libya
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Obesity is widely recognized as a major global health challenge because of its strong association with multiple cardiometabolic risk factors including diabetes, hypertension, and coronary artery disease. It compromises the quality of life and shortens life expectancy. This minireview discusses firstly the physiological mechanisms involved in energy homeostasis including peptidergic signalling of hunger and satiety from the GI tract mediated by the gut hormones (ghrelin, CCK, PYY, GIP, GLP-1,), and the status of energy stores from the adipose tissue mediated primarily by leptin, secondly, the field methods used in clinical practice to estimate the degree of obesity and lastly, management of the obese patient.

Key-words:

Obesity - fat - lean body mass - body mass index - body fat distribution - leptin - ghrelin - basal metabolic rate


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Eingereicht: 27. Oktober 2015

Angenommen: 02. November 2015

Artikel online veröffentlicht:
07. Juli 2022

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