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Overview of the Management of Obese patients

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Obesity is a chronic disease with a complicated etio-pathogenesis [1, 2]. This means that the factors that make it up interact together via linear and non-linear equations, thus making the estimate of the results not precise. These factors interact and adapt themselves to the environment and culture and evolve in time. Because there is not any efficient unidirectional strategy, particularly in the long term, it is fundamental to try to give answers to questions that are not necessary in other pathologies.

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Lucchin, L. (2016). Overview of the Management of Obese patients. In: Sbraccia, P., Nisoli, E., Vettor, R. (eds) Clinical Management of Overweight and Obesity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24532-4_1

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