“Obesity is a chronic disease, it is important to make it known”immediately underlines Dr. Coralie Mettante, nutritionist and medical referent of the CSO (Center specialized in obesity) of the CHR Metz-Thionville. A disease that concerns 18 % of the population in Francein 2024, more than 10 million people. The Grand is also one of the territories particularly concerned Since the prevalence reaches 20 %. According to the WHO (World Health Organization), since 1975, the number of cases of obesity has almost tripled on a planetary scale.
Two missions for the benefit of patients
Hence the rise of 37 CSOs distributed throughout France, 4 of which are located in the Grand Est: Strasbourg, Reims, Nancy and Metz-Thionville. Labeled for fifteen years, The Mosellan CSO has two major missions. “The first is to ensure personalized management of severe and/or complex obesity”explains Dr. Coralie putting. To do this, the center relies on Un specific technical tray and a multidisciplinary medical team : doctors, dietitians, psychologists, teachers in adapted physical activity, nurses, surgeons and professionals from different specialties, obesity that can generate various other diseases.
The second mission is aimed at Organize powerful support channels By developing collaborations with city medicine: liberal doctors, nurses, CPTS (territorial health communities), DAC (coordination support devices), as well as specialized medical care. It is a question of perfecting the course of patients and their follow -up by connecting health players and by deploying awareness, training and information actions. Note, moreover, in this last register, that on October 7, in Metz (Congress Center), the CSO is organizing the 1ʳᵉ territorial day of obesity. Conferences and workshops are scheduled to take an overview of the care of obesity in the territory, with all the actors concerned.
Missions also facilitated by the presence of suitable technical platforms, the CHR with MRI and computed tomography (scanner) allowing the management of patients with severe obesity.
New treatments
If it has been a lot of question of obesity in the media for a few months, It is also linked to the marketing of two new treatments. “Different studies are advancing middle weight loss of around 15 to 22 %, in one year. The results are significant and may, in some cases, be alternatives relevant to surgery (bariatric) »underlines Dr. Coralie who puts not without emphasizing the fact that the latter are addressed to patients with obesity and must be the subject of rigorous follow -up. Especially due to undesirable effects that it is important to apprehend.
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