Comprehensive Evaluation
Obesity assessment involves evaluating a patient's body composition and overall health. This comprehensive evaluation helps determine the severity of obesity, underlying causes, and appropriate treatment options to improve the patient's health and well-being.
Body Composition
Body composition analysis (BCA) is done to assess the patient’s body obesity index. BCA is essential to completely understand a person’s health and weight, as traditional methods of assessing health, such as BMI, can be misleading. Going beyond your weight, BCA breaks down your body into four components: fat, lean body mass, minerals, and body water. Its is a pain-free and non-invasive method of testing. Bioelectrical Impedance is used for estimating body composition. Safe low-level currents are sent in to the the body through the hand and foot electrodes.The impedance of the current encountered are measured, and from there, various parameters of your body composition is derived.
BCA Parameters
The common BCA parameters include Body Mass Index (BMI), Skeletal Muscle Mss (SMM), Percentage Body Fat (PBF), Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), Water content, etc. The real benefit of looking at BCA instead of just absolute weight is that it takes into account, body fat and muscle percentage, along with their distribution, both of which are strongly correlated with obesity and markers of obesity / metabolic syndromes.
Metabolic Package
Obesity is considered a disease anymore as it causes various co-morbidities ( associated metabolic diseases ) like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart diseases, high cholesterol, hypothyroidism, obstructive sleep apnoea, arthritis, polycystic ovarian disease, infertility, hypothyroidism, fatty liver, reflux disease, etc. It is mandatory to do detailed medical assessment of various organs for its anatomy and function to understand the complications associated with excess weight gain and its implications on short and long term health and quality of life.
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