Lifestyle changes and complications were also discussed at the 32nd Congress of the Hungarian Diabetes Association

By: Trademagazin Date: 2024. 05. 24. 10:26

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Type 2 diabetes and obesity can cause cardiovascular and kidney diseases, and even cancer. It is essential to change your lifestyle and perform screening tests, because the risk of developing oncological diseases is more than four times higher among diabetics, and about 30 percent more frequent among overweight people, said XXXII of the Hungarian Diabetes Association. Congress, where, among other things, the experts discussed the topic of obesity and prevention options.

Obesity: the “pandemic” of the modern age

In their 1997 report, the WHO and the International Working Group on Obesity identified overweight as a serious and chronic disease that requires prevention and treatment strategies at both the individual and societal levels.

Its development may be due to sociocultural, environmental, genetic, lifestyle and psychological factors, or even microbes in our intestinal tract. Based on the latest World Obesity Atlas, it can be said that while 1.39 billion adults were overweight in 2020, obesity is expected to affect 1.77 billion people in 2035. Taking into account the overweight and obese, the population of our country ranks fourth among the countries of the European Union.