Department of Endocrinology, HYGEIA Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Obes Facts. 2011;4(4):329-33. doi: 10.1159/000331236. Epub 2011 Aug 11.
Obesity is recognised as a global epidemic and the most prevalent metabolic disease world-wide. Specialised obesity services, however, are not widely available in Europe, and obesity care can vary enormously across European regions. The European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO, www.easo.org) has developed these criteria to form a pan-European network of accredited EASO-Collaborating Centres for Obesity Management (EASO-COMs) in accordance with accepted European and academic guidelines. This network will include university, public and private clinics and will ensure that the obese and overweight patient is managed by a holistic team of specialists and receives comprehensive state-ofthe-art clinical care. Furthermore, the participating centres, under the umbrella of EASO, will work closely for quality control, data collection, and analysis as well as for education and research for the advancement of obesity care and obesity science.
肥胖症被认为是一种全球性的流行病，也是全球最普遍的代谢性疾病。然而，专门的肥胖症服务在欧洲并不广泛，欧洲各地区的肥胖症治疗方法差异很大。欧洲肥胖研究协会（EASO，www.easo.org）已制定这些标准，根据公认的欧洲和学术指南，在欧洲范围内建立一个经过认证的 EASO 肥胖管理合作中心（EASO-COMs）泛欧网络。该网络将包括大学、公立和私立诊所，以确保肥胖和超重患者由一个由专家组成的整体团队进行管理，并接受最先进的全面临床护理。此外，参与中心将在 EASO 的保护伞下密切合作，进行质量控制、数据收集和分析，以及教育和研究，以推进肥胖症治疗和肥胖症科学的发展。
