Gastroenterología y Hepatología (English Edition)
Recommendations on the management of severe obesity in patients with inflammatory bowel disease of the Spanish Group on Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis (GETECCU), Spanish Society of Obesity (SEEDO), Spanish Association of Surgery (AEC) and Spanish Society of Digestive Endoscopy (SEED)
August 2024 • Eugeni Domènech, Andreea Ciudin, José M. Balibrea, Eduard Espinet-Coll, Fiorella Cañete, Lílliam Flores, Manuel Ferrer‐Márquez, Román Turró, Alejandr…
Obesity is a multifactorial, chronic, progressive and recurrent disease considered a public health issue worldwide and an important determinant of disability and death. In Spain, its current prevalence in the adult population is about 24% and an estimated prevalence in 2035 of 37%. Obesity increases the probability of several diseases linked to higher mortality such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hyperlipidemia, arterial hypertension, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, several types of cancer, or obstructive…