Un estudio de la Universidad de Navarra alerta que la obesidad mórbida en España ha crecido un 200% en los últimos 14 años
A study by the University of Navarra warns that morbid obesity in Spain has grown by 200% in the last 14 years.
The research led by professors of the School of Medicine has been published in the last issue of the Revista Española de Cardiología.
A study prepared by researchers at department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health of the University of Navarra warns about the growth of morbid obesity cases in Spain, which have shot up by 200% in the last 14 years, compared to 65%, which is the percentage increase in obesity cases.
The work of the researchers of the School of Medicine Francisco Javier Basterra-Gortari, Miguel Ángel Martínez-González, Juan José Beunza, Maira Bes-Rastrollo, Estefanía Toledo and Martín García López, has been carried out from the data of the six National Health Surveys published between 1993 and 2006. The results have led to the conclusion that the growth in the prevalence of morbid obesity is faster than that of obesity.
The study also revealed that, although women continue to be the most morbidly obese (6.8 out of every thousand women and 5.4 out of every thousand men), the relative growth among men has been three times higher.
The research has been published in the latest issue of the Revista Española de Cardiología. In it, Dr. Miguel Ángel Martínez-González has counted with the partnership of the Clínica Universidad de Navarra, the Internal Medicine Service of the Hospital Reina Sofía of Tudela and the department of Preventive Medicine and management of Quality of the Hospital Virgen del Camino of Pamplona.