Dangers of Obesity

Complications related to obesity are numerous. This disease is now considered a condition affecting the life expectancy in coming decades, while it increased continuously for 2 centuries.

Specifically, obesity contributes to the development of certain diseases:

- Obesity, mechanical overload of the skeleton, increases the risk of joint disease (osteoarthritis);

- Obesity, and especially abdominal obesity, promotes the onset of hypertension and diabetes;

- Obesity increases the risk of chronic respiratory failure;

- Obesity increases the risk of heart failure and vascular disease;

- Obesity increases the risk of digestive cancer;

- In women, obesity increases the risk of infertility.