Obesity - the chronic recurring disease, described superfluous accumulation of a fatty tissue in an organism. More often the obesity arises after 40 years, mainly at women.

Etiology. Play a role following factors: genetic, demographic (age, a floor, an ethnic accessory), social and economic (formation, a trade, the marital status), psychological and behavioural (a delivery, physical activity, alcohol, smoking, stresses). The cores from them are the hyperalimentation, the excessive use of fat nutrition in a combination to low physical activity at faces with hereditary predisposition.

Signs, current. Complaints of patients depend on an expression, duration and type of an obesity, and also from presence of accompanying diseases. At a massive obesity of patients disturb delicacy, a sleepiness, depression of mood, sometimes nervousness, irritability; a nausea, a bitter taste in a mouth, a dyspnea, edemas of the bottom extremities, a joint pain, a backbone. The general attribute of all forms of an obesity is the superfluous mass of a body.