symptoms
The accumulation of excess fat under the diaphragm and chest wall can put pressure on the lungs, causing difficulty breathing and choking, even with minimal effort.
Difficulty in breathing can seriously interfere with sleep, causing momentary stopping of breathing (sleep apnea), which causes daytime sleepiness and other complications.
Obesity can cause several orthopedic problems, including pain in the lower back and aggravation of osteoarthritis, especially in the hips, knees and ankles.
Because obese people have a poor body surface relative to their weight, they can not efficiently remove body heat, so they sweat more.
It is also frequent swelling of the feet and ankles, caused by the accumulation at this level of small to moderate amounts of fluid (edemas).
In childhood, general obesity and visceral adiposity are associated with a greater Cardiovascular and metabolic risk, regardless of the weight that reached the child into adulthood, making them one of the most serious public health problems of the 21st century.