{"id":163612,"date":"2024-07-10T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/?p=163612"},"modified":"2024-12-10T17:06:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T23:06:27","slug":"years-of-healthy-life-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/health\/years-of-healthy-life-obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Loss of Healthy Years Lived Due to Obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Mexico, obesity<\/strong> and overweight <\/strong>have an incidence of 75.2% in the adult population \u2212over 20 years old\u2212, according to the National Health and Nutrition Survey<\/a> (Ensanut). The high prevalence of these conditions, as well as their increase in children and adolescents<\/strong>, has become a public health concern because it increases the risk <\/strong>of developing chronic diseases<\/strong> such as diabetes, hypertension and cardiac complications, which translates into a loss of years of healthy life <\/strong>for the population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To understand how big the problem is, a group of experts from the Institute for Obesity Research<\/a> (IOR) used data<\/strong> obtained by the Global Burden of Disease<\/a> (GBD<\/strong>) 2021, analyzing only those belonging to the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GBD<\/strong> is a global research program based at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington that quantifies health loss<\/strong> in different places around the world over time. Its objective is to provide precise and specific information that allows the improvement health systems<\/strong> globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe indicator most commonly used to make health decisions is usually mortality<\/strong>, but not everyone who gets sick<\/strong> dies,\u201d says H\u00e9ctor Arreola Ornelas<\/a>, research professor at the IOR and the School of Government and Public Transformation<\/a> at Tec de Monterrey. \u201cThis study not only counts the people who die, but adds the years they live with unhealthy conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Focusing on Mexican data from 1990 to 2021<\/strong>, researchers break down <\/a>how overweight <\/strong>and obesity <\/strong>have become the main risk factor <\/strong>for the Mexican population<\/strong>. \u201cAlthough it does not help us understand the why<\/em><\/strong>, it helps us understand the what<\/strong><\/em> very well,\u201d says Linda Morales<\/a>, a postdoctoral researcher at the IOR who also participated in the study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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