Endocrine Abstracts

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Obesity is defined as an excess of adipose tissue of sufficient magnitude to produce adverse health consequences, and is associated with increased morbi–mortality. BMI is the most frequently used diagnostic tool in the current classification system of obesity. It has the advantage that a subject’s height and weight are easy and inexpensive to measure. Overweight is defined as a BMI between 25.0 and 29.9 kg/m2 and obesity as a BMI ≥30.0 kg/m2</su...

Obesity belongs to the five most important health burdens in modern societies and reaches with ~20% prevalence in Germany epidemic proportions. Obesity significantly increases the risk of developing metabolic (e.g. type 2 diabetes), cardiovascular, orthopaedic, psychologic, and other disorders. Despite the well established epidemiologic relationship between obesity and these co-morbidities, there is a subgroup of metabolically healthy obese patients, which seems to be protecte...