Essentials Diagnosis for Simple Obesity

(1) Overweight: Standard weight (kg) = 〔height (cm) - 100] × 0.9. If the actual body weight exceeds the standard weight by 20 % and muscularity and water retention are excluded, this can be diagnosed as obesity.

(2) Fat accumulation: Fat accumulation can be estimated by the thickness of skin fold. The average thickness of subscapular skin fold of a normal person aged 25 is 14.2 mm. The average thickness of skin fold of the deltoid region of a 25-year-old male is 10.4 mm, and that of a 25-year-old female is 17.5 mm.

(3) It may be accompanied with the following symptoms: listlessness, lassitude, drowsiness, palpitation, hyperorexia, hypologia, short breath, dyspnea, big belly and abdominal distension, or amenorrhea, impotence,aversion to heat, profuse sweating, pain of the back and loins, and arthragia.