40% of overweight Mexican bureaucrats

• May 2, 2024

More of 40% of workers in the service of the State, almost two million bureaucrats They are overweight or obese because they are sitting for most of their eight hours of work, a situation that they take home.

The director of the Multidisciplinary Management Clinic of the Overweight and the Obesity of the National Medical Center "20 de Noviembre" of the ISSSTE , Jesús Montoya Ramírez, described that situation as alarming and proposed to combat obesity. bariatric surgeries .

For public health systems, the obesity It is a serious health problem and support of the patients, since the people who suffer comorbidities associated with that illness diabetes , hypertension , dyslipidemias and diseases cardiovascular , every time they are more and in ages 100% productive.

In an interview, the doctor indicated that due to this the main thing is to take preventive actions and encourage people to exercise and eliminate bad Feeding Habits ; obesity is considered by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a pandemic .

Montoya Ramírez stressed that Mexico is placed in the first place of childhood obesity and the second in adults over 20 years.

For this reason, the Clinic of Multidisciplinary Management of Overweight and Obesity was created in the Institute of Security and Social Services for State Workers (ISSSTE) for four years.

The specialist considered that obesity is already a epidemic in Mexico and not stopping it will have a great impact on the cost of institutions to treat chronic diseases.

Montoya assured that all the beneficiaries of the ISSSTE can access this service and their first contact clinics are in charge of channeling them. He also stressed that preparing staff is very important and ISSSTE has been concerned with creating human resources for the surgical treatment of obesity, so he thought that it is important for people to know that there is a specialty to treat the problems of obesity Y overweight .

Source: NOTIMEX

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