At Rehab Medicine of the Carolinas we recognize that obesity is affected by many different factors. It is a complex disorder that is not only affected by genetics and biology but factors in the environment as well, such as stress, poor sleep quality, and decreased decreased access to healthy food.

Obesity is associated with at least 60 comorbidities and 173 disease states some of which are: depression, obstructive sleep apnea, gastroesophageal reflux disease, cardiovascular disease, asthma/reactive airway disease, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, polycystic ovarian syndrome, female infertility, urinary stress incontinence, male hypogonadism, osteoarthritis, prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, various cancers.