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A De Lorenzo1, C Maiolo, G D'Agostino
1Cattedra di Alimentazione e Nutrizione Umana, Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università "Tor Vergata", Roma, Italia. delorenzo@uniroma2.it
Background:
Obesity, is one of the most common nutritional disorder in developed countries. The association with several health disorders (i.e., type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hyperlipidemias, cholelithiasis, obstructive sleep apneas, coronary heart disease, cancer) is frequently present.
Design:
Obesity is, actually, measured using body mass index (BMI) determination. However, BMI isn't useful to predict body fat content. Skin-fold thickness, bioelectrical impedance analysis and/or dual energy x ray absorptiometry are specific tools with different capability to measure body composition (i.e., fat mass and fat-free mass). All these methods need a large data-base of age, sex and population reference values.
Conclusions:
Obesity management (dietary treatment, monitoring of weight loss, pharmacologic approach, and surgery ) is associated with several complications and errors.
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