Action on Obesity
A truly comprehensive reference for the management of patients with endocrine cancer.
Obesity has increased so rapidly and is now so prevalent in the UK that it is often described as ‘epidemic’. The UK is not alone with this problem, but has one of the highest incidences of severe obesity in the world. Obesity has continued to occur more frequently, more severely, and at younger ages than was ever imagined possible when the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) last addressed the issue in 2007. No country on the planet has successfully tackled this problem, which results in major adverse consequences for health, wellbeing, work output and life expectation.
Physicians, regardless of their specialty, are increasingly likely to be confronted with patients in whom the obesity itself needs managing, or where the obesity has modified the presentation and management needs of the diseases it causes.
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Although the prevalence of obesity in adults and in children in the UK is amongst the highest in the developed world, the multidisciplinary services necessary to manage patients with an established problem of excess weight and its clinical consequences are poorly developed within the UK