Check-ups in obese and diabetic patients: preventive medicine

Obesity is a chronic disease associated with important additional diseases, such as DM 2, that both reduce life quality and increase morbimortality from any cause. In the Western world, obesity is directly responsible for most deaths due to associated chronic disease. Therefore, substantial effort s...

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Published inInternational journal for vitamin and nutrition research Vol. 76; no. 4; pp. 194 - 199
Main Authors Charro Salgado, A.L, Rubio Herrera, M.A, Runkle de la Vega, D.J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland 01.07.2006
Subjects
Adult
diabetes
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - prevention & control
disease prevention
Female
health promotion
health services
Humans
literature reviews
Male
medical treatment
Middle Aged
morbidity
mortality
obesity
Obesity - epidemiology
Obesity - prevention & control
Obesity - therapy
Physical Examination - methods
Prevalence
preventive medicine
Preventive Medicine - methods
quality of life
Spain - epidemiology
Spain
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Summary:Obesity is a chronic disease associated with important additional diseases, such as DM 2, that both reduce life quality and increase morbimortality from any cause. In the Western world, obesity is directly responsible for most deaths due to associated chronic disease. Therefore, substantial effort should be directed towards adequate primary prevention campaigns and policies, as well as towards an intensive and long-term multidisciplinary treatment of obesity, in an attempt to combat this threat to the health of a large part of our population.
ISSN:0300-9831
DOI:10.1024/0300-9831.76.4.194