Obesity Medicine

Obesity & Associated Health Disorders

Obesity is characterized by the  excessive deposition or accumlation of fat in the adipose tissue. It results in many adverse metabolic effects on health, causing an increase in oxidative stress, which leads to endothelial dysfunction, periodontitis, because of the increase in proinflammatory cytokines. Thus obesity appears to participate in the multifactorial phenomenon in the production of reactive oxygen species. The possible relationship between obesity,  periodontitis and potential underlying biological mechanisms remain to be established. However, the adipose tissue actively secretes a variety of cytokines and hormones that are involved in inflammatory processes, that focus on similar pathways involved in the pathophysiology of obesity, periodontitis and related inflammatory diseases. So relation between obesity and periodontitis and to review adipose tissue derived hormones and cytokines that are involved in inflammatory processes and their relationship to periodontitis has to be studied.