Challenges and perspectives in preventing and treating obesity

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The American Medical Association recognized obesity as a chronic disease in 2013, followed by the World Health Organization. At that time, the global incidence and prevalence of obesity had already been progressively increasing for at least three decades. This scenario has not changed; recent data estimate that 1 billion people worldwide will be obese by 2030. The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics has reported that 25% of the adult Brazilian population lives with the disease, a percentage that has quadrupled in children and adolescents since the 1990s.

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Denis Pajecki, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

MD, PhD, Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

Paulo Manuel Pêgo Fernandes, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

MD, PhD, Vice-Director, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Full Professor, Department of Cardiopulmonary Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Director of the Scientific Department, Associação Paulista de Medicina, São Paulo, Brazil.

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2025-06-06

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Pajecki D, Pêgo Fernandes PM. Challenges and perspectives in preventing and treating obesity. Sao Paulo Med J [Internet]. 2025 Jun. 6 [cited 2025 Jun. 15];142(6):1-2. Available from: https://periodicosapm.emnuvens.com.br/spmj/article/view/3218

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Vol. 142 No. 6 (2024)

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