Obesity Related Comorbidities
The list of co-morbidities, the serious nature of each, and their associated costs, support arguments for obesity representing the single most serious challenge to a financially constrained healthcare system:
- Metabolic syndrome
- Type 2 diabetes
- Hypertension
- Obstructive sleep apnea
- Asthma
- Cardiovascular disease
- Venous stasis disease
- Dyslipidemia
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- Osteoarthritis
- Infertility
- Polycystic ovarian syndrome
- Urinary stress incontinence
- Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- Pseudotumor cerebri
- Migraines
- Depression
- Immune function
- Gout
- Cancer
