World Gastroenterology Organisation

Global Guardian of Digestive Health. Serving the World.

 

WGO Practice Guideline

Obesity


Introduction

Roughly 1.5 billion people live with obesity worldwide. This disease can exert appreciable adverse effects on virtually all aspects of a person’s life – physical, psychological, and socioeconomic. Empirically linked to several-year reductions in both quality-adjusted-life-years and lifespan, it confers increased risks for a host of life-altering and potentially life-threatening comorbidities including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and at least 13 forms of cancer. Yet only a small minority of patients seeks formal treatment and few achieve meaningful, sustained weight loss or the amelioration of obesity-associated comorbidity. One major reason for this is woefully-inadequate knowledge among the public and amongst primary healthcare providers regarding various treatment options that have been proven effective.


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  • Lilian Kow (Australia)
  • Guilherme Macedo (Portugal)
  • Reem Z Shahaira (USA)
  • Scott Shikora (USA)
  • James Toouli (Australia)
  • Kevin P White (Canada)

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