Obesity complications in pediatric practice

Abstract

The obesity prevalence in children and adolescents is epidemic. We report two clinical cases of adolescent constitutional exogenous obesity. A patient with progressing obesity, complicated by dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus type 2, proteinuria, polyneuropathy, arterial hypertension, steatohepatitis, multiple ulcers of stomach and disseminated hemorrhagic gastritis. Another patient with obesity, complicated with arterial hypertension, succeeded in body mass index normalization following recommendations on diet and physical activity.

Keywords

• obesity
• complication
• children
• adolescents