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Published in: Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders 3/2020

Open Access 01-09-2020 | Obesity

Double burden of malnutrition in persons with obesity

Authors: Rocco Barazzoni, Gianluca Gortan Cappellari

Published in: Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders | Issue 3/2020

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Abstract

A paradoxical double challenge has emerged in the last decades with respect to nutrition and nutrition-related clinical conditions. Hunger-related undernutrition continues to represent an unacceptable burden, although its prevalence has been encouragingly reduced worldwide. On the other hand, the prevalence of overweight and obesity, defined as fat excess accumulation with negative impact on individual health, has dramatically increased due to increasingly pervasive obesogenic lifestyle changes. Undernutrition and obesity may coexist in world regions, Countries and even smaller communities and households, being referred to as double burden of malnutrition. It is however important to point out that fat accumulation and obesity may also induce additional nutritional derangements in affected individuals, both directly through metabolic and body composition changes and indirectly through acute and chronic diseases with negative impact on nutritional status. In the current narrative review, associations between fat accumulation in obesity and malnutrition features as well as their known causes will be reviewed and summarized. These include risk of loss of skeletal muscle mass and function (sarcopenia) that may allow for malnutrition diagnosis also in overweight and obese individuals, thereby introducing a new clinically relevant perspective to the obesity-related double burden of malnutrition concept.
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Metadata
Title
Double burden of malnutrition in persons with obesity
Authors
Rocco Barazzoni
Gianluca Gortan Cappellari
Publication date
01-09-2020
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders / Issue 3/2020
Print ISSN: 1389-9155
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2606
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11154-020-09578-1

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