Xiao Zhao, a senior high school girl, 17 years old, not tall, about 5.8 meters, but weighs 86 kg, a general belly to leave a deep impression. When she came to the clinic, she wore a maternity skirt on top and a pair of wide jeans on the bottom. If not for the diagnosis of “simple obesity” clearly written on the medical record, the doctor thought that the pregnant woman had gone to the wrong door! Under the doctor’s careful questioning, Xiao Zhao told his own full of grievances. The original ah, Zhao’s parents are “blessed” people, their weight is about 75 kilograms, Zhao is born on the eight pounds, and later, with the growth of age, appetite is getting bigger and bigger, plus usually do not like activities, drink cola every day, weight soaring faster and faster. Alas, in the prime of youth, but more and more for their own body type inferiority complex, sometimes are afraid to meet strangers. This is not the most important, more annoying is that Xiao Zhao recently felt very uncomfortable, legs swollen, sometimes the eyelids are swollen, breathing is also very difficult, often suffocating, you have to take a long breath to relieve! And for some reason, he is always sleepy in class, and his test scores are falling, and he is about to take the college entrance exams, so he is really anxious! A few days ago came to an outpatient clinic, the doctor said it was simple obesity, Xiao Zhao thought since it was “simple” obesity, there was nothing wrong with it, so he did not take it seriously and went home on his own. But these days more and more uncomfortable, so again to come to the clinic, want to understand why “simple obesity” is still so uncomfortable? The doctor listened to Zhao’s complaint, and after a thorough physical examination, found that she had no organic changes other than obesity, and considered that simple obesity might be complicated by other symptoms, such as cardiopulmonary dysfunction, respiratory sleep syndrome, and edema. She was recommended to be hospitalized for comprehensive observation and treatment. So, what is simple obesity? I believe no one is unfamiliar with obesity. It is due to excessive accumulation of fat in the body, and can be further divided into two categories: simple obesity and secondary obesity. Secondary obesity is generally due to other causes of obesity, generally need to correct other causes of obesity after the obesity will improve. Simple obesity refers to obesity caused by no obvious cause of endocrine and metabolic diseases, and it belongs to non-pathological obesity. Simple obesity is related to age, heredity, life habits and adipose tissue characteristics. Usually we see many obese people, such as Xiao Zhao, all belong to this kind of obesity. Simple obesity is not what people literally understand, it is “simple” obesity, only affects the aesthetics, does not cause health hazards. The World Health Organization has defined simple obesity as a disease, which is the third enemy of human health threat after cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and cancer. Here, briefly introduce some complications caused by simple obesity. First, obesity is prone to complications of cardiopulmonary dysfunction. Obese people need more oxygen because of weight increase, but the lungs cannot increase the function with it. At the same time, the accumulation of abdominal fat in obese people restricts the respiratory function of the lungs, so it can cause hypoxia. Performance as drowsiness, cyanosis, dyspnea, and finally lead to cardiopulmonary failure. Like Xiao Zhao, often suffocating, is the manifestation of simple obesity complicated by cardiopulmonary dysfunction. If an obese person is accompanied by coronary heart disease, hypertension, high blood pressure, diabetes and cerebrovascular accident is called “death quintet”, this is more dangerous, should immediately take treatment measures. Second, obesity is easy to complicate the respiratory sleep apnea syndrome. Respiratory sleep syndrome is a breathing disorder characterized by the collapse of the pharyngeal muscles that occurs during sleep. Its harm is mainly manifested as drowsiness, breath-holding, reduced ventilation, the vast majority of apnea during sleep, bilateral lower limb edema and right heart failure in severe cases. Xiao Zhao usually study inattentive, love to be distracted, dozing, performance decline, did not know that the respiratory sleep syndrome caused the trouble! Again, obesity is easily complicated by edema. Many obese patients come to the clinic, more or less accompanied by swelling, and moderate to heavy obese patients are even more so. Because obese patients are prone to endocrine and metabolic diseases, hepatobiliary diseases and the aforementioned cardiopulmonary dysfunction, the chances of obese patients with edema are high. If you are an obese patient, and recently for unknown reasons there is rapid weight gain and swelling of the legs, you should carefully observe whether it is edema! Finally, obesity can also be other complications. For example, reproductive impotence, osteoarthrosis, cancer, hernia, fatty liver, early death, etc.. See, simple obesity is not “simple”, even quite complex na! Early treatment of obesity is important to intercept the occurrence of the above complications! If you are worried about some of the symptoms associated with obesity, then hurry up and lose weight! If you already have obvious discomfort due to obesity, like the aforementioned Xiao Zhao, experts suggest that it is best to be hospitalized for systematic examination and treatment. Finally, to tell you that after systematic treatment, when discharged from the hospital, Xiao Zhao’s cardiopulmonary function had basically returned to normal, his general edema disappeared, and there was no respiratory sleep apnea. The doctor advised them to keep exercising, eat less snacks and test their weight frequently after discharge. We wish them good health forever from the bottom of our hearts!