ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

Brief Summary: This review describes how views and understanding of obesity have changed over the last 100 years and how new therapies have been developed. The article summarizes key milestones in knowledge gains that led to the science community’s current understanding. It also shows how the scientific world has dealt with this gain in knowledge in terms of the activity of professional societies and scientific publications. The review closes with a few important aphorism...

Brief Summary: The European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) initiated this online Delphi study. They invited an expert panel of n=194 stakeholders, including policymakers, healthcare professionals, people living with obesity, and researchers from 30 countries to evaluate proposed statements on obesity to create a standardised language. Based on the understanding of obesity as an adiposity-based chronic disease, consensus was achieved on 54 statements categorized in...

Brief Summary: Global data are still scarce on the combined burden of obesity and underweight, and its changes over time across countries and age groups. The previous prevalences of obesity and underweight were published in 2016 [1]. This analysis pooled representative, world-wide samples of the general population, including 3,663 studies with 222 million participants aged 5 years and older with weight and height measurements to estimate the combined and individual prevalence ...