Men who are often sick must have more flesh in this area

Many men start to gain weight and become obese after the age of 30. Obesity in men not only affects their image, but also causes diseases.

The incidence of hypertension in obese people is three times that of normal people

In addition to the obvious accumulation of subcutaneous fat in the waist, abdomen, and buttocks, obese people also have fat accumulated in their internal organs and blood vessels throughout the body. The adipose tissue increases significantly, expanding the vascular bed and increasing the blood circulation volume. Under normal heart rate conditions, cardiac output increases a lot. Long-term excessive burden causes left ventricular hypertrophy, which can easily lead to a variety of vascular diseases, especially cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases that are serious threats to health and life. Furthermore, obesity often leads to hyperinsulinemia, and the accumulation of sodium becomes a cause of high blood pressure. Relevant research data show that the higher the degree of obesity, the higher the incidence of high blood pressure and the more obvious the increase in blood pressure. Further research shows that the incidence of hypertension in obese people is 1.5 to 3 times that of normal people, and the incidence of hypertension in severely obese people is as high as over 50%.

Atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease

Obese people often have high triglycerides, which can cause atherosclerosis. Overweight, increased body surface area, excessive fat tissue, increased cardiac load (including increased myocardial load caused by fat deposits inside and outside the myocardium) and other factors can cause cardiac ischemia and hypoxia. Obese people have reduced physical activity, and the coronary collateral circulation is weakened or insufficient. All of the above factors can lead to atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease.

Diabetes favors obese men

Obese people eat more than their body needs, and excessive eating stimulates the pancreas to secrete excessive insulin, resulting in hyperinsulinemia. Since the cells of obese people are insensitive to insulin, insulin secretion will be further promoted, which will increase the load on the pancreas and cause hyperplasia of pancreatic islet cells. In the long run, this may lead to pancreatic islet failure and diabetes. In addition, obesity is often accompanied by hyperlipidemia, which often causes hyperlipidemia, increases free fatty acids, aggravates sugar metabolism disorders, and is more likely to induce diabetes.

Respiratory insufficiency

It is clinically called obesity-hypoventilation syndrome, also known as hypoventilation syndrome.

Extremely obese people have too much fat on their chest and abdominal walls, which restricts their breathing activities, makes them breathe superficially, and reduces their expiratory volume, which leads to a decrease in functional residual capacity, making the lungs close to the exhalation position. Due to the decrease in tidal volume, alveolar ventilation is reduced, and ventilation is restricted, resulting in carbon dioxide retention and decreased arterial oxygen saturation. Patients may develop cyanosis. Due to long-term hypoxia, polycythemia vera may occur, and at the same time, blood viscosity increases, aggravating circulatory resistance, increasing cardiac load, pulmonary artery hypertension, and developing into chronic cor pulmonale.

Fat men are likely to have fatty liver

Obesity can cause fatty degeneration of the liver, leading to liver enlargement. Due to long-term high-carbohydrate, high-fat diet and hyperinsulinemia, obese patients' liver synthesizes triglycerides at a rate that greatly exceeds the liver's ability to transport them out of the liver, or causes obstacles to the transport of triglycerides by very low-density lipoprotein, resulting in triglyceride accumulation in the liver and fatty liver.

Biliary tract diseases

The incidence of cholecystitis and cholelithiasis in obese people increases with the degree of obesity and age, which is related to the increased synthesis of endogenous cholesterol in the liver and other tissues of obese patients. The ratio of bile salt plus lecithin to cholesterol in normal bile is 11:1. If the cholesterol ratio increases, cholesterol will precipitate and crystallize, and easily melt into gallstones. Gallstones have a direct irritating effect on the gallbladder mucosa, which can easily cause secondary bacterial infection and form cholecystitis.

Osteoarthritis

Obesity increases the burden on the joint surface, causing accelerated wear and aging of the joint structure, causing deforming arthritis, and thus triggering bone and joint pathology, especially the knee joint. Since the weight that the knee bears when we walk is 3-6 times the body weight, it is a joint that is easily affected by overweight. The incidence rate of overweight women is about 4 times that of normal weight women, and the incidence rate of overweight men is 5 times that of normal weight men. Because the bone quality of obese people deteriorates, once they fall, they recover more slowly. Therefore, the harm of obesity to bone and joints should be paid special attention.