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Obesity. An analysis of epidemiological and prognostic research

INTRODUCTION: Apart from its medical dimension, the current problem with obesity has acquired social urgency. This serious lifestyle disease has a negative impact on a number of life processes in the body, causing distortions and damaging different structures. It also contributes to clinical complic...

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Autores principales: Krzysztoszek, Jana, Wierzejska, Ewelina, Zielińska, Alicja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4379361/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25861287
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms.2013.37343
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Wierzejska, Ewelina
Zielińska, Alicja
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description INTRODUCTION: Apart from its medical dimension, the current problem with obesity has acquired social urgency. This serious lifestyle disease has a negative impact on a number of life processes in the body, causing distortions and damaging different structures. It also contributes to clinical complications, lowers the quality of life and reduces life expectancy. Apart from health-related consequences, it can bring such unfavourable results as social, mental and emotional disorders. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A systematic review of relevant epidemiological studies on obesity in Poland relative to selected countries in Europe and the world over the past 15 years was conducted. Also an attempt was made at forecasting the development of the obesity problem. RESULTS: The analysed results demonstrated that the percentage of obese people among the adult population of Poland was on the rise in the period under investigation. Taking into account the estimated growth rate, we can assume that the percentage of obese people in Poland right now might total 23.7% for men and 23.3% for women. If no changes are introduced in this respect, in 2020 we can expect a rise to, respectively, 30.3% and 27.3%, and in 2030 to 37% for men and 31.4% for women. CONCLUSIONS: The increase in the percentage of obese people among the adult population in Poland is most likely connected with a positive energy balance. In comparison to other European countries Poland has the highest percentage of obese men and women.
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spelling pubmed-43793612015-04-08 Obesity. An analysis of epidemiological and prognostic research Krzysztoszek, Jana Wierzejska, Ewelina Zielińska, Alicja Arch Med Sci Systematic Review INTRODUCTION: Apart from its medical dimension, the current problem with obesity has acquired social urgency. This serious lifestyle disease has a negative impact on a number of life processes in the body, causing distortions and damaging different structures. It also contributes to clinical complications, lowers the quality of life and reduces life expectancy. Apart from health-related consequences, it can bring such unfavourable results as social, mental and emotional disorders. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A systematic review of relevant epidemiological studies on obesity in Poland relative to selected countries in Europe and the world over the past 15 years was conducted. Also an attempt was made at forecasting the development of the obesity problem. RESULTS: The analysed results demonstrated that the percentage of obese people among the adult population of Poland was on the rise in the period under investigation. Taking into account the estimated growth rate, we can assume that the percentage of obese people in Poland right now might total 23.7% for men and 23.3% for women. If no changes are introduced in this respect, in 2020 we can expect a rise to, respectively, 30.3% and 27.3%, and in 2030 to 37% for men and 31.4% for women. CONCLUSIONS: The increase in the percentage of obese people among the adult population in Poland is most likely connected with a positive energy balance. In comparison to other European countries Poland has the highest percentage of obese men and women. Termedia Publishing House 2015-03-14 2015-03-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4379361/ /pubmed/25861287 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms.2013.37343 Text en Copyright © 2015 Termedia & Banach http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Krzysztoszek, Jana
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Zielińska, Alicja
Obesity. An analysis of epidemiological and prognostic research
title Obesity. An analysis of epidemiological and prognostic research
title_full Obesity. An analysis of epidemiological and prognostic research
title_fullStr Obesity. An analysis of epidemiological and prognostic research
title_full_unstemmed Obesity. An analysis of epidemiological and prognostic research
title_short Obesity. An analysis of epidemiological and prognostic research
title_sort obesity. an analysis of epidemiological and prognostic research
topic Systematic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4379361/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25861287
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms.2013.37343
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