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ARTICLE TYPE : RESEARCH ARTICLE

Published on :   03 Mar 2026, Volume - 2
Journal Title :   WebLog Journal of Internal Medicine | WebLog J Intern Med
Source URL:   weblog iconhttps://weblogoa.com/articles/wjim.2026.c0303
Permanent Identifier (DOI) :  doi iconhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19036148

The Terms of Normal Weight, Overweight, and Obesity Should be Replaced with the Amount of Excess Fat Tissue in Human Body

Mehmet Rami Helvaci 1 *
Esma Helvaci 2
Emine Helvaci 2
Yusuf Aydin 1
Leyla Yilmaz Aydin 3
Alper Sevinc 1
Celaletdin Camci 1
Abdulrazak Abyad 4
Lesley Pocock 5
1Specialist of Internal Medicine, MD, Turkey
2Manager of Writing and Statistics, Turkey
3Specialist of Pulmonary Medicine, MD, Turkey
4Middle-East Academy for Medicine of Aging, MD, Lebanon
5Medi-WORLD International, Australia

Abstract

Background: Excess fat may be the major cause of atherosclerosis, aging, and death.

Methods: Sickle cell diseases (SCD) patients were studied.

Results: We studied 222 males and 212 females (30.8 vs 30.3 years of age, p>0.05, respectively). Smoking (23.8% vs 6.1%, p<0.001), alcohol (4.9% vs 0.4%, p<0.001), transfused red blood cells (RBC) in their lives (48.1 vs 28.5 units, p=0.000), disseminated teeth losses (5.4% vs 1.4%, p<0.001), ileus (7.2% vs 1.4%, p<0.001), stroke (12.1% vs 7.5%, p<0.05), chronic renal disease (CRD) (9.9% vs 6.1%, p<0.05), cirrhosis (8.1% vs 1.8%, p<0.001), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (25.2% vs 7.0%, p<0.001), coronary heart disease (18.0% vs 13.2%, p<0.05), leg ulcers (19.8% vs 7.0%, p<0.001), and digital clubbing (14.8% vs 6.6%, p<0.001) were all higher in males.

Conclusion: As an accelerated atherosclerotic process, hardened RBC-induced capillary endothelial damage terminates with end-organ insufficiencies in early decades in the SCD. Although atherosclerotic endpoints are so common, we detected no case of diabetes mellitus (DM) probably due to lower excess fat tissue. As the most common cause of CRD, DM may be a relative insufficiency of pancreas against the excess fat tissue. But the term of excess weight should be replaced with the amount of excess fat tissue in human body since there are approximately 19 kg of excess fat tissue even between the lower and upper borders of normal weight, 33 kg between the lower border of normal weight and obesity, and 66 kg between the lower border of normal weight and morbid obesity in adults.

Keywords: Sickle Cell Diseases; Excess Fat Tissue; Endothelial Ä°nflammation; Atherosclerosis; Normal Weight; Overweight; Obesity; Acarbose; Metformin

Citation

Helvaci MR, Helvaci E, Helvaci E, Aydin Y, Aydin LY, Sevinc A. The Terms of Normal Weight, Overweight, and Obesity Should be Replaced with the Amount of Excess Fat Tissue in Human Body. WebLog J Intern Med. wjim.2026. c0303. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19036148
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