Table 5.

Comorbidities associated with obesity

System	Symptom, sign, or disease
Cardiovascular	Hypertension, coronary heart disease, congestive heart failure, ankle oedema, varicose veins
Respiratory	Shortness of breath, sleep apnoea, pickwickian syndrome
Gastrointestinal	Indigestion, reflux oesophagitis, gallstones, fatty liver
Musculoskeletal	Arthritis, back pain
Skin	Venous stasis of legs, intertrigo, acanthosis nigricans
Endocrine and metabolic	Glucose intolerance, type 2 diabetes, dyslipidaemia, polycystic ovary syndrome, amenorrhoea, lipodystrophy