Review Article
Health Risks Linked to Overweight and Obesity
Shokhan Hidayat Hamarashid*(1)
(1). Department of Food Science and Quality Control, College of Agricultural Engineering Science, Sulaimani, Bakrajo Street, Sulaimanyah, Iraq.
(*Corresponding author: Shokhan Hidayat Hamarashid. Dr. Email: shokhan.hamarashid@univsul.edu.iq.
Received: 22/09/2020 Accepted: 08/10/2020
Abstract
When a person overweight and obese, it means he is near from many health problems that are causes to more morbidity and mortality. So, there are a lot of risks factors for overweight and obesity, some of it can change such as lifestyle and environment and other cannot be changed such as age, gender and family history. The primary objective of this research is to determine the risks factors for overweight and obesity and linked to health problems. Then, brief explain some of common disease those are strong relationship with obesity and it will be mentioned some way to management weight and prevention weight gain. Example for the diseases that are related with obesity are: Cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, dyslipidemia, gallbladder disease, osteoarthritis and sleep apnea. As it has been reviewed in many researches, obesity have strong association with an increased risk of many of diseases and causes of mortality. In spite of the considerable effects of obesity, losing weight and management the healthy weight can reduce the risks significantly.
Keywords: Overweight; Obesity; Risk factor; BMI; Weight management.
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Hamarashid, S. H. (2020). Health risks linked to overweight and obesity: A review. Research Journal of Science, 1(2), 45–53.