Fırat Tıp Dergisi |
2018, Cilt 23, Sayı 3, Sayfa(lar) 042-047 |
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Obesity and Musculoskleteal System |
Burak ÖZ, Ahmet KARATAŞ, Zeynel Abidin AKAR, Süleyman Serdar KOCA |
Fırat Üniversitesi, Tıp Fakültesi, İç Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı, Romatoloji Bilim Dalı, Elazığ, Türkiye |
Obesity and related metabolic disorders are important public health problems with gradually increasing prevalences. Obesity affects musculoskeletal system. It increases the frequency and severity of several inflammatory and non-inflammatory rheumatic diseases. Moreover, comorbid obesity may decrease the anticipated responses to treatment by rheumatic diseases. On the other hand, some of inflammatory rheumatic diseases and their thera-peutic agents may increase the frequencies of obesity and related metabolic diseases.
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