Articles and Lectures

2016-04-01

Obesity and Children

Dr. Kenneth Kak Yuen WONG - Council Member, HKOS Childhood obesity is now an increasing problem worldwide. Indeed, approximately 3% of children and adolescents in the UK have severe obesity. A similar trend is seen in Hong Kong. The incidence of cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension, hyperinsulinism and hyperlipidaemia and fatty liver approaches 20% in such individuals. Overweigh...

2016-04-01

Obesity in the Elderly Population

Dr. Christie LI - Council Member, HKOS Obesity in elderly is an emerging global health issue. According to recent data, one third or more of U.S. adults aged 60 years and older have body weights in the obese range. Body composition changes with aging. There is an increase in fat mass and a decrease in muscle mass. Even without body weight changes, the amount of fat significantly increase wi...

2016-04-01

Obesity and the Anesthesiologist

Dr. Cheung Chi Wai - Council Member, HKOS Obesity is a major health care issue globally, especially for the western and the developed countries. As obesity population is becoming bigger, it is expected that the number of obese patients is being increased. Obese patients suffer from different co-morbidities,that are huge challenges to anaesthesiologists. Difficult airway, intra-operative ven...

2016-04-01

Obesity and dermatological disease

Dr. Johnny Chun Yin CHAN - Council member, HKOS Obesity is traditionally linked to various skin conditions. Acanthosis nigricans and acrochordons (skin tags) are common cutaneous manifestations associated with metabolic syndrome and obesity. Obesity is also known to increase the prevalence of various cutaneous infections including bacterial (furuncles, pyogenic folliculitis, erythrasma) and...

2016-04-01

Obesity and the Plastic Surgeon

Dr. Velda Ling Yu CHOW - Council Member, HKOS Management of obese patients comprises a multidisciplinary team approach. Recent advances in metabolic surgery and bariatric surgery offers a chance of weight loss in carefully selected patients. Massive weight reduction is defined as the loss of greater than 100lb of weight or 100% above a person’s ideal weight. It can cause significan...

2016-04-01

Obesity and Haematology

Dr. HWANG Yu Yan - Council Member, HKOS Venous thromboembolism is increasingly common in Chinese. It is potentially fatal and carries significant morbidity. Pulmonary hypertension and post thrombotic syndrome are some of the long term sequelae. Among all the risk factors, obesity is one of the avoidable and reversible predisposing conditions. Obesity has been shown to increase risk of venou...

2016-04-01

The Bariatric Surgeon

Dr. LEUNG Siu Kee - Chapter Member, HKOS Morbid obesity becomes a global health problem. Bariatric surgery has been proved as an effective method to achieve significant long-term weight loss. The bariatric surgeon is therefore an important member of the multi-disciplinary team in the weight reduction program. He or she must be proficient in endoscopy, open abdominal surgery, minimal access ...

2016-04-01

Obesity and Renal Diseases

Dr. YAP Yat Hin Desmond - Council Member, HKOS Obesity and chronic kidney disease (CKD) are growing clinical problems in developed countries including Hong Kong. The identification of obesity-related CKD is important as obesity is a potentially modifiable risk factor for CKD development and progression. The relationship between obesity and CKD is intriguing. While obesity can be linked to C...

2016-04-01

Message from the Scientific Coordinator

Dr. Tellus NG - Scientific Coordinator, HKOS Congratulations to the establishment of the Hong Kong Obesity Society. In view of the ever increasing numbers of patients with overweight/obesity/morbid obesity worldwide and in Hong Kong, I am delighted with the Hong Kong Obesity Society which enables a platform in Hong Kong to unite different parties through regular communications about up-to-d...

2016-04-01

Obesity and Respiratory Diseases

Dr. Terence TAM - Honorary Treasurer, HKOS Patient with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are at increased risk for poor neurocognitive performance and adverse medical outcomes due to repeated arousals and/or hypoxemia during sleep over months to years, and severe untreated OSA has been associated with increased all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. In both males and females, the strongest ri...

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