Dr. Johnny Chun Yin CHAN - Council member, HKOS Obesity is traditionally linked to various skin conditions. Acanthosis nigricans and acrochordons (skin tags) are common cutaneous manifestations associated with metabolic syndrome and obesity. Obesity is also known to increase the prevalence of various cutaneous infections including bacterial (furuncles, pyogenic folliculitis, erythrasma) and...

Dr. HWANG Yu Yan - Council Member, HKOS Venous thromboembolism is increasingly common in Chinese. It is potentially fatal and carries significant morbidity. Pulmonary hypertension and post thrombotic syndrome are some of the long term sequelae. Among all the risk factors, obesity is one of the avoidable and reversible predisposing conditions. Obesity has been shown to increase risk of venou...

Dr. YAP Yat Hin Desmond - Council Member, HKOS Obesity and chronic kidney disease (CKD) are growing clinical problems in developed countries including Hong Kong. The identification of obesity-related CKD is important as obesity is a potentially modifiable risk factor for CKD development and progression. The relationship between obesity and CKD is intriguing. While obesity can be linked to C...

Dr. Terence TAM - Honorary Treasurer, HKOS Patient with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are at increased risk for poor neurocognitive performance and adverse medical outcomes due to repeated arousals and/or hypoxemia during sleep over months to years, and severe untreated OSA has been associated with increased all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. In both males and females, the strongest ri...

Dr. CHAN King On - Vice President (Surgical Chapter), HKOS Bariatric surgery is the treatment of morbid obesity using a surgical method. The classical treatment paradigm of morbid obesity is education, exercise, diet and medications. However in some patients disease progression is inevitable despite best medical treatments. In such cases, bariatric surgery should be considered as a treatmen...