The Kathmandu Declaration – Obesity in the south Asian region: An exigency statement
Background: The South Asian Region shoulders more than its fair share of health-related challenges. While we continue to tackle acute and communicable illness, newer challenges and concerns have emerged. These include the rapidly increasing metabolic and endocrine syndromes such as diabetes, dyslipi...
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| author | Dina Shrestha Sanjay Kalra Noel Somasundaram Guru Prasad Dhakal Shahjada Selim Mohammad Wali Naseri A.H. Aamir Santosh Shakya Ali Latheef Rucha Mehta Md Faruque Pathan Rakesh Sahay Syed Abbas Raza Nitin Kapoor |
| author_facet | Dina Shrestha Sanjay Kalra Noel Somasundaram Guru Prasad Dhakal Shahjada Selim Mohammad Wali Naseri A.H. Aamir Santosh Shakya Ali Latheef Rucha Mehta Md Faruque Pathan Rakesh Sahay Syed Abbas Raza Nitin Kapoor |
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| description | Background: The South Asian Region shoulders more than its fair share of health-related challenges. While we continue to tackle acute and communicable illness, newer challenges and concerns have emerged. These include the rapidly increasing metabolic and endocrine syndromes such as diabetes, dyslipidemia and obesity. Methods: In the past, SAFES has released the Dhaka Declaration (2015) on gestational diabetes mellitus, and the Colombo Declaration (2019) on prevention of diabetes. The authors from 8 countries have together drafted and agreed this declaration to improve healthcare delivery for the recognition and management of obesity in the region. Results: In this Kathmandu declaration we highlight the urgent need for recognition, evaluation and prevention of obesity in this region. It has described not only the need but also the methods to improve obesity outcomes in the region through advocacy, awareness and addressal. Conclusion: Through its member associations, South Asian Federation of Endocrine Societies (SAFES) works to ensure optimal endocrine health care delivery in South Asia and has worked on the Kathmandu Declaration to improve the obesity pandemic in the region. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-29738b6639334a5198822665561e466c2023-08-05T05:15:54ZengElsevierClinical Epidemiology and Global Health2213-39842023-07-0122101315The Kathmandu Declaration – Obesity in the south Asian region: An exigency statementDina Shrestha0Sanjay Kalra1Noel Somasundaram2Guru Prasad Dhakal3Shahjada Selim4Mohammad Wali Naseri5A.H. Aamir6Santosh Shakya7Ali Latheef8Rucha Mehta9Md Faruque Pathan10Rakesh Sahay11Syed Abbas Raza12Nitin Kapoor13Department of Endocrinology, Norvic International Hospital, Kathmandu, NepalDepartment of Endocrinology, Bharti Hospital, Karnal, India; University Center for Research & Development, Chandigarh University, Mohali, India; Corresponding author. Department of Endocrinology, Bharti Hospital, Karnal, India.Department of Endocrinology, National Hospital of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri LankaDepartment of Medicine, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital and Dean, Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan, BhutanDepartment of Endocrinology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, BangladeshInternal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology Metabolism and Diabetes, Kabul University of Medical Sciences (KUMS), Kabul, AfghanistanHayatabad Medical Complex, Lahore, PakistanAarus Lifestyle Hospital, Diabetes Thyroid And Endocrinology Care Center, Lalitpur, NepalDepartment of Internal Medicine, Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital, MaldivesApollo CVHF Hospital Ahmedabad, IndiaBangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders) Academy, Dhaka, 1000, BangladeshDepartment of Endocrinology, Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad, Telangana, IndiaDepartment of Medicine, Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital and Research Center, Lahore, PakistanNitin Kapoor, Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India; Non Communicable Disease Unit, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaBackground: The South Asian Region shoulders more than its fair share of health-related challenges. While we continue to tackle acute and communicable illness, newer challenges and concerns have emerged. These include the rapidly increasing metabolic and endocrine syndromes such as diabetes, dyslipidemia and obesity. Methods: In the past, SAFES has released the Dhaka Declaration (2015) on gestational diabetes mellitus, and the Colombo Declaration (2019) on prevention of diabetes. The authors from 8 countries have together drafted and agreed this declaration to improve healthcare delivery for the recognition and management of obesity in the region. Results: In this Kathmandu declaration we highlight the urgent need for recognition, evaluation and prevention of obesity in this region. It has described not only the need but also the methods to improve obesity outcomes in the region through advocacy, awareness and addressal. Conclusion: Through its member associations, South Asian Federation of Endocrine Societies (SAFES) works to ensure optimal endocrine health care delivery in South Asia and has worked on the Kathmandu Declaration to improve the obesity pandemic in the region.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213398423001021ObesityOverweightSouth Asian regionKathmandu declarationSAFES |
| spellingShingle | Dina Shrestha Sanjay Kalra Noel Somasundaram Guru Prasad Dhakal Shahjada Selim Mohammad Wali Naseri A.H. Aamir Santosh Shakya Ali Latheef Rucha Mehta Md Faruque Pathan Rakesh Sahay Syed Abbas Raza Nitin Kapoor The Kathmandu Declaration – Obesity in the south Asian region: An exigency statement Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health Obesity Overweight South Asian region Kathmandu declaration SAFES |
| title | The Kathmandu Declaration – Obesity in the south Asian region: An exigency statement |
| title_full | The Kathmandu Declaration – Obesity in the south Asian region: An exigency statement |
| title_fullStr | The Kathmandu Declaration – Obesity in the south Asian region: An exigency statement |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Kathmandu Declaration – Obesity in the south Asian region: An exigency statement |
| title_short | The Kathmandu Declaration – Obesity in the south Asian region: An exigency statement |
| title_sort | kathmandu declaration obesity in the south asian region an exigency statement |
| topic | Obesity Overweight South Asian region Kathmandu declaration SAFES |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213398423001021 |
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