"Morbid obesity" nghĩa là gì?
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"Morbid obesity" có morbid là bệnh tật, obesity là béo phì -> từ này nghĩa là tình trạng béo phì trong đó chỉ số khối cơ thể dao động từ 40 và 49.9 kg/m2.
Ví dụ
Accumulating (tích lũy) a high body mass index (BMI) takes time, and the transition from slightly overweight to morbid obesity often spans (kéo dài trong) years or decades. Our population's scales bear this out: In 40 years, American obesity went from being relatively rare to a quietly overlooked national crisis.
“These groups are people who have comorbidities (bệnh đi kèm), the comorbidities range from Ischemic heart disease, morbid obesity, and severe unstable diabetes to leukemia (bệnh bạch cầu). Their level of immune response will not be good as those who do not have those comorbidities.”
Bariatric surgery is primarily used for the weight-loss processes (quá trình) which mainly include the treatment of comorbid disorder (rối loạn) that is associated with morbid obesity which needs bariatric surgery devices. It includes the modification in the gastrointestinal (dạ dày, ruột) tract by which either the nutrients that are absorbed in the intestinal tract are controlled or the quantity of food that the stomach can intake is controlled.
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