- Endocrine abnormalities
- Insulin resistance
- Type 2 diabetes
- Gout
- Decrease secretion of growth hormone
- Increased cancer risk
- Breast
- Uterine
- Prostate
- Kidney
- Colon
- Pancreatic
- Stomach
- Gallbladder
- Cardiovasclar problems
- Atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries)
- Hypertension
- Hyperlipidemia
- Congestive heart failure
- Venous stasis
- Stroke
- Gastrointestinal problems
- Gallbladder disease
- Fatty liver
- GERD (reflux)
- Urinary incontinence
- Lung problems
- Asthma
- Sleep apnea
- Obesity-hypoventilation syndrome
- Psychologic
- Altered body image
- Depression
- Low self-esteem
- Increased mortality rate
- Mortality rate in the morbidly obese population is up to 12 times as high as in their same-aged cohorts of average weight
