Question

Describe an obese patient and identify these items in your description.

List your exam findings leading to the obese diagnosis (criteria used to determine)

Etiology of your patient’s diagnosis

Risk factors exhibited

Appropriate lab work and findings

Treatment and follow up

Answer 1

Answer :

Obese patient : it is one of the medical condition in this excess fat occimulated in the body. And it may effect on health.

Or

Abnormal and excess fat occumulated in the body.

* in this patients BODY MASS INDEX is more than 30 kg/ meter square may seen.

* or persons who are having their body mass index more than 30 kg / m2 that persons we can called as obese patients.

Findings leading to obese diagnosis :

To find out the obese we can use the BMI Formula.

* BMI = WEIGHT in kgs devided by HEIGHT in meter square.

* if bmi comes above 30 kg / meter square we can consider as obesity.

* for example clients weight is 100kgs.and height is 170 cm means bmi is 34.60kgs/ meter square.

* so we can consider client is obese.

* and also obese leads to high blood pressure, diabetes, and metabolic changes, atherosclerosis and some other cardiac problems may seen in this clients.

Etiology of obesity :

Over eating

Physical inactivity

Stress

Some of behavioural changes.

Risk factors :

Risk factors we may see like modifiable and non modifiable risk factors.

Modifiable means which we can change those are smoking, alcoholism, over eating, eating excess fat content diet, physical inactivity, stress etc.

Non modifiable factors means which we can not modifiable those are family history, genetics, age factors and sex factors ect. We can not change those.

So modifiable factors only helpful to reduce obesity.

Lab work and findings :

* high cholesterol levels more than 200 mg / dl.

* High blood pressure more than 140/90 mm of hg.

* there may be a metabolic changes and increased blood sugars levels etc.

* waist circumference more than 90 cm in males and more than 80 cm in females.

Treatment and follow up :

* treat ment should be given according to the symptoms.

* mainly education regarding dietary therapy like 1200 - 1600 k. Cal per day. They have to take.

* educate regarding physical exercises, like aerobics and walking jogging etc.

* behavioural therapy like stress management, self monitoring of problems and social support.

By these we can change at least some what.

These is regarding brief description of obesity clients.