Ensuring Drug Security Forum

Obesity: The Global Epidemic of the 21st Century?

05 Jun , 10:00–11:30
‘Ensuring Drug Security’ Russian Pharmaceutical Forum
Congress Centre, zone A, 3rd floor, conference hall A
In partnership with GEROPHARM

Today, there are more than a billion people around the world living with obesity, 159 million of whom are children, and this figure is constantly trending upward. The situation in Russia is consistent with global trends: more than 45 million of the country’s residents suffer from obesity. Roughly 10% of them are morbidly obese, while more than 30% are overweight, and the number of such people increase each year. Problems with excess weight lead to the development of dangerous conditions and non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, which are the main cause of death around the world: heart attack, stroke, diabetes, oncology, and diminished reproductive functions. Excess weight is not only an aesthetic problem, but a serious metabolic disorder, a source of increased risk of premature death, and a real threat to the health of the nation, which, in turn, causes economic and social damage to the state. However, doctors do not always pay proper attention to the treatment of obesity, as they take it as a whole with other diseases instead of viewing it as a separate disease. How can we change the attitude towards the problem of obesity among the medical community? How can we promote knowledge about a healthy lifestyle and the prevention of excess weight among the population? Why should obesity be recognized as a socially significant disease? What innovative approaches to the treatment of excess body weight exist today?

Moderator
Marina Rykova, Editor-in-Chief, Stroynee.pro

Panellists
Oksana Drapkina, Director, National Medical Research Center for Therapy and Preventive Medicine of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Yury Zhulev, President, Russian Hemophilia Society
Evgeny Kamkin, Deputy Minister of Health of the Russian Federation
Arina Kiseleva, Semi-finalist of the Big Girls Show
Natalia Mokrysheva, Director, Head of the Department of Personalized and Translational Medicine, National Medical Research Center of Endocrinology, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation; Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Petr Rodionov, Deputy Chairman of the Council under the Government of the Russian Federation for Trusteeship in the Social Sphere
Olga Starikova, Head of National Project Support Division, Natsionalnye Prioritety

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