肥胖为体形异常的一种表现,临床上比较常见。由于肥胖直接或间接地并发许多疾病,如糖尿病、高血压病、动脉硬化性心脏病、结石等,有引起过早死亡的危险,故日益引起人们的重视。由于引起肥胖的因素较多,各种肥胖改变有所交叉,以致造成诊断与鉴别诊断的困难。当遇到肥胖者就医时,一般来说,其诊断程序如下: 一、判断是否为肥胖肥胖是由于机体生理机能改变,导致脂肪组织过多,人体内脂肪贮存量显著超过正常人的平均量。人体脂肪量的判定,可通过视诊,观察身体外形饱满程度。估量皮下脂肪厚度,常用指捏法估量面颊、肩胛骨下、胸廓下部、上臂、脐下及大腿等处 Obesity is a form of abnormal performance, more common in clinical practice. As obesity is directly or indirectly associated with many diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, arteriosclerotic heart disease, stones and so on, it causes the risk of premature death and therefore attracts more and more attention. Due to the many factors that cause obesity, a variety of obesity changes have been crossed, resulting in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis difficulties. When encountered obese medical treatment, in general, the diagnostic procedures are as follows: First, to determine whether obesity is due to the body’s physiological function changes, resulting in excessive adipose tissue, the human body fat storage significantly more than normal average. Determination of the amount of body fat, through the visual inspection, observe the full extent of the body shape. To measure the thickness of subcutaneous fat, commonly used method to pinch the cheek, scapula, lower thorax, upper arm, under the navel and thigh