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Hello, my name is John Wilding.
I'm a professor of medicine
at the University
of Liverpool and
a consultant physician at
Aintree University
Hospital in Liverpool,
where I spend some of
my time looking after
people with obesity
and type 2 diabetes.
I'm going to talk today about
new standards in
weight management.
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These are my disclosures.
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So I will start with an outline.
At the beginning, I'm
going to set the scene
and discuss how
common obesity is
and why it matters to
healthcare professionals
and society as a whole.
We'll have a brief consideration
of why there is an
epidemic of obesity
and how obesity leads
to its complications
to other diseases.
Then we'll discuss what
we can do about obesity,
both prevention at
a societal level
and treatment at an
individual level.
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If we look at global data,
and here we have data from
the World Obesity
Federation focusing on
women living with obesity
around the world.
We can see that there are
quite large areas of the world
where more than 30%
of the population
are living with obesity
and many other areas
where the prevalence
is above 20%.
There are really very
few parts of the world
where obesity is rare.
These data are, of
course, for women,
but we're seeing
the same in men,
and we're also seeing
increasing rates
of obesity in young
people and children.
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Here we see some data
from the United Kingdom
from the Health Survey
for England up to 2022.
You can see here that
nearly 30% of the UK population
are living with obesity,
and nearly 2 million
have severe obesity
as classified here as a
body mass index above 40.
These people would be
eligible for treatment within
specialist services or perhaps
to have bariatric surgery.
This has become such a problem
over the last 20-30 years,
as you can see
from these slides.
Why is this happening?
Well, we know from this work
