Clinical Management of Overweight and Obesity Recommendations of the

These guidelines make recommendations regarding the management of individuals with a body mass index greater than 25.0 kg/m2 and cover all age groups, from children to the elderly, as well as various patient subsets. A range of measures to yield health be

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Clinical Management of Overweight and Obesity

Paolo Sbraccia • Enzo Nisoli • Roberto Vettor Editors

Clinical Management of Overweight and Obesity Recommendations of the Italian Society of Obesity (SIO)

Editors Paolo Sbraccia

Roberto Vettor

Department of Systems Medicine Medical School University of Rome “Tor Vergata” Rome Italy

Center for the Study and the Integrated Treatment of Obesity University of Padua Padua Italy

Enzo Nisoli Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine University of Milan Milan Italy

Based on the document “Standard Italiani per la Cura dell’Obesità”, published online 2012 by Società Italiana dell’Obesità ISBN 978-3-319-24530-0 ISBN 978-3-319-24532-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-24532-4

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Preface

It is with great pleasure that we present Clinical Management of Overweight and Obesity: Recommendations of the Italian Society of Obesity (SIO). This book of guidelines is the result of efforts by a group of Italian experts in the treatment of obesity. Responsibility for individual sections has rested with, Luca Busetto, Barbara Cresci, Massimo Cuzzolaro, Lorenzo M. Donini, Pierpaolo De Feo, Annunziata Lapolla, Lucio Lucchin, Claudio Maffeis, Fabrizio Pasanisi, Carlo Rotella, Ferruccio Santini, and Mauro Zamboni. To everybody, who has been involved in the project, but especially to those just mentioned, we express our heartfelt thanks. The book addresses the obesity problem in diverse circumstances from pregnancy to old age, ending with a treatment algorithm that hopefully will lead over the years to new and more effective therapeutic tools. There is no doubting the need! The book is intended