PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | morbid obesity |
| Phenotype | C0028754|obesity |
| Sentences | 4 |
| PubMedID- 24274869 | Surgical management of obesity in patients with morbid obesity and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. |
| PubMedID- 21108553 | obesity, including morbid obesity, is associated with a high risk of vte and, unfortunately, fixed doses of us fda-approved anticoagulant regimens, including unfractionated heparins, low-molecular-weight heparins and factor xa inhibitors, may not provide optimal vte prophylaxis in these patients. |
| PubMedID- 23522991 | Overweight was defined as bmi ranging from 25 and 29.9, obesity as bmi of 30-39.9, and morbid obesity as bmi >/= 40 kg/m(2). |
| PubMedID- 25947642 | Although public health measures, lifestyle change and pharmacological therapies have an important role in the management of obesity, patients with established morbid obesity (body mass index over 40 kg/m2) may also require bariatric surgery. |
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