Epidemiology & Public Health

Biography

Biography: Marcos Ascensión

Abstract

important risk to suffer from inflammation related pathologies, such as type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease, atherosclerosis, hypertension, and very frequently infections and allergies. In addition, there are several confounder factors, such as age, gender, eating behaviour, physical activity, sedentariness and sleep that are essential to take into account in order to implement successful treatments and achieve the best results. The increase in childhood obesity has been reported to lead to adult associated comorbidities that give rise to elevated healthcare costs. Therefore, treating obesity in young people is critical to prevent adult obesity-related complications. However, as adolescence is characterized by important changes in body size and composition, it is important to highlight that weight management treatments for obese adolescents should aim to ensure adequate growth and development, by reducing excessive fat mass accumulation, avoiding loss of lean body mass, improving well-being and self-esteem and preventing cyclical weight regain. During treatments a follow-up of biomarkers evaluation is essential to assess changes in the metabolism. Among them, very recently during the last decade, the gut microbiota composition has been shown up as a potential partaker in the development of obesity and its association with the subsequent insulin resistance. In summary, obesity prevention in early ages and the evaluation of biomarkers acquire a great interest to promote life quality through preventing inflammatory mechanisms along life.