Therapists warn about obesity as a disease

You should watch for a waist greater than 98 centimeters.

Therapists warn that obesity is a disease, which in turn leads to metabolic diseases associated with excess obesity (EMEA), that is, all pathologies resulting from excess and deposition of fat. But the fact is that a woman’s waist should not exceed 98 centimeters, and a man’s – 102.

They insist that excess fat harms the kidneys, liver and heart.

This obesity affects and damages important organs such as the kidneys, liver and heart. Thus, treating obesity to reduce body weight by at least 10% has been observed to reduce the risk, as revealed at the 45th National Congress of Internal Medicine.

As was confirmed at this meeting, which takes place in the Canary Islands, “fat or obesity can cause disease in two ways: by being deposited in excess in places where it should not be, such as in the joints, respiratory tract, liver or heart. Or because this fat is non-functional.”

Among all the diseases associated with excess obesity, these include heart failure, cardiovascular disease, nephropathy, hypoventilation syndromes, atrial fibrillation, type 2 diabetes and liver diseases associated with metabolic dysfunction.

In addition, there are more than 30 types of cancer, polycystic ovary syndrome, infertility in men and women or joint problems and others.

The prevalence of the EMEA region is much higher than the prevalence of obesity, which is estimated to be 30% of adults in Spain by 2030.

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In fact, there are people who, although not considered obese due to body mass index, are overweight, especially those who have a large abdominal perimeter. Therefore, guidelines recommend starting treatment for obesity when the abdominal circumference is more than 102 in men or 98 in women.

The role of the therapist in this pathology is important in two ways: identifying those patients who are at risk of developing comorbidities or hospitalized due to their decompensation, and the fact that their identification allows them to offer more personalized treatment. “If we do not treat this excess obesity, we will not treat the root of the disease,” they emphasize from the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine (SEMI).

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