Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes as a Global Challenge
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 459
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to inform you that a Special Issue on obesity and diabetes in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is being prepared.
Obesity and diabetes are two complex and multifactorial diseases deemed major public-health issues, with alarmingly increasing rates globally. The overall prevalence of obesity and overweight has increased significantly over the last few decades. It has approximately doubled in more than 70 countries since 1980 and, in 2015, more than 100 million children and 600 million adults were estimated to have obesity.
According to the International Diabetes Federation, the global prevalence of diabetes in 2021 was 537 million adults aged between 20 and 79 years old, expected to rise to 783 million by 2045. However, almost half of the people living with diabetes are undiagnosed.
Moreover, T2D and obesity are closely related. Both are associated with a higher risk of several cardiometabolic diseases and certain cancers, which comes at a considerable cost in terms of morbidity and mortality.
Lifestyle interventions, current pharmacotherapeutic options, and metabolic/bariatric surgery are the cornerstones of treatment strategies. However, sustainable and long-term effects are not always achieved, especially when one intervention is used. Therefore, additional research is needed to improve patient care, health, adherence, and treatment outcomes.
The continuing rise in obesity and diabetes and the magnitude of negative impacts on people's health status and quality of life have highlighted the fundamental need to elucidate further the underlying mechanisms and have inspired the investigation of a diverse array of approaches to improve the armamentarium of strategies for obesity and diabetes prevention and health care.
Papers addressing these topics are invited for this Special Issue.
Dr. Angeliki Angelidi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- obesity/overweight
- type 2 diabetes/prediabetes
- epidemiology
- prevention
- pathophysiological mechanisms
- risk factors
- cardiometabolic disorders
- complications
- living with obesity/diabetes
- training/education/perception
- treatment strategies
