Obesity is a condtion that fatty tissue is accumulated in the body excessively. It can make people dwindle mentally and socially, and increase diseases of adult people for example hypertension, arteriosclerosis, DM and so on. these days, obese people are increasing because the standard of living improved and the eating habits changed like western nations. As people have more understandings of obesity, people who want to be managed by the obesity management center´s treatments are increasing.
We selected the fifty patients who had taken the whole treatments procedure of Kangnam Kyung Hee Korean hospital´s obesity management center, and appointed them as the materials. At first, we examined the patients´ age, onset, other symptom, other disease, family history, lactation, experienced obesity treatments by using the questionnaire.
Treatment for obesity consists of Lipodren, ear-acupuncture, aquamassage, strengthening exercise of waist and abdomen(B-200), radiation of infra-red, dietary treatment, and modification of behavior. And the whole procedure is put in operation twelve times. The comparison of before with after treatments is done by measuring of the change of the degree of obesity, BMI, percent body fat, and fat distribution. Inbody 2.1(Biospace co., Korea) is used as the measuring device, and the paired t-test is used to prove the statistical significance.
The mean age of the patients is 30.6. 21 patients(42%) got obese when they were in high school. 15 patients(30%) complained of constipation. 8 patients had digestive diseases, 5 patients heart diseases. 18 patients(36%) had family history of obesity. Speaking of the method of lactation, 12 patients(24%) ate powdered milk, 10 patients(20%) ate both powdered milk and mother´s milk in their infancy. So, 44% of all patients ate artificial diet. 35 patients(70%) experienced other treatments for obesity. Among them 20 patients experienced dietary treatment, 14 patients starvation cure, and 13 patients exercise.
Before and after treatment, the degree of obesity decreased from 134.44±18.28(%) to 128.12±17.34(%). BMI decreased from 27.854±3.749(㎎/m2) to 26.542±3.509(㎎/m2). Percent body fat decreaesed from 37.142±4.499(%) to 35.238±4.688(%). Fat distribution decreased from 0.9212±0.0625 to 0.8998±0.0576. Body weight decreased from 71.858 11.685(㎏) to 68.486(㎏). We investigated the change of obesity indexes before and after the treatment and got the statistical significant results.(p<0.05)
Through this study, we could find out the epidemiologic feature of obese patients and be convinced that our treatments for obesity had a statistical significance.
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