Fundamentos actuales del diagnóstico y tratamiento de la obesidad

Abstract

Introduction: Obesity is a disease, in which several diseases are initiated that attempt against the patient's quality of life and its prevalence of obesity increased worldwide between 1975 and 2016. The BMI allows to establish a classification and offers the guideline to distinguish the surgical patient from the non-surgical patient and more anthropometric measurements such as waist circumference, waist-height index and body fat percentage are performed for diagnosis. In the treatment of obesity, diet and physical activity result in a 5-10% loss of body weight. On the other hand, there are few approved medications and they have limited efficacy for the treatment of obesity, so the treatment is diet, behavioral interventions, medications and surgical intervention if necessary. Objective: To update the main diagnostic and therapeutic elements in obesity through the review of Pubmed and LILACS databases in the last 5 years to improve teaching and hospital assistance processes. Methodology: Descriptive study based on the review of scientific documents and articles in different platforms such as PubMed and LILACS in the last 5 years. Conclusion: Obesity is an accumulation of calories, fat or a high BMI, and its diagnostic methods are within reach and stratifying them is ideal, even from the lowest level.