Juaneda Hospitales fights overweight in its the new Obesity Department
Excess weight has not only aesthetic but also health consequences leading to diseases that put our health at risk.
For this reason, Juaneda Hospitales has set up an Obesity Department with some of the most renowned endocrinologists such as doctors Luis Masmiquel Comas and Luis Alberto Gómez Gómez to treat one of the most serious problems of the 21st century: obesity.
Patients with any degree of overweight or obesity (a disease with different degrees and variants), and those in high risk situations that can be exacerbated by being overweight will benefit from this department. High-risk situations include e.g. menopause, quitting smoking, prediabetes or polycystic ovarian syndrome. In any case, the patients are treated multidisciplinary (surgery, gastroenterology, psychology and nutritional advice) by specialized teams.
The Obesity Department of Juaneda Hospitales has the most advanced techniques for treating obesity, including the most serious cases. It also treats all diseases that are generally associated with obesity, metabolic and hormonal problems. Also, other problems related to being overweight, such as for example eating disorders.
The department relies on a team of endocrinologists led by doctors Masmiquel and Gómez, and includes other specialists in endocrinology and nutrition: Sergio Díaz, July Montaño and Francisca Caimari.
As it is a complex problem that requires additional specialists, this department also offers multidisciplinary care thanks to collaboration with other specialties: gastroenterology, surgery (with experts in minimally invasive obesity surgery, doctors José Andrés Cifuentes and Salvador Pascual), Psychology (psychological support from Raquel Valera) and nutritional advice (in the hands of the nutritionists Margarita Morey and Luisa Cristina Ayala as well as the educator María Puga).
With the launch of this Obesity Department, Juaneda Hospitales is making a strong commitment to providing its patients with more advanced procedures, most of which are minimally invasive.
The specialists are also experts in the latest pharmacological treatments for certain types of obesity.
The new department for obesity of the Balearic Institute of Endocrinology and Nutrition offers as a special feature the multidisciplinary treatment and the highly personalized assessment of each individual case by respected and experienced experts in endocrinology and nutrition, psychologists, surgeons, endoscopy specialists and gastroenterologists.
Continuous support and monitoring by this multidisciplinary team aim to promote long-term success. They also give the patients the guarantee that they are in the hands of a team made up of all specialists who are very familiar with the problems of obesity and the complications that arise from it.
"Obesity is the cause of great suffering and one of the most common social health problems." This is how Luis Masmiquel, Co-Director of the Balearic Institute of Endocrinology at the Juaneda Hospitales, began his opening speech at the Royal Academy of Medicine of the Balearic Islands.
“Obesity must be understood as a chronic disease, just like diabetes or high blood pressure. Rather, it is a disease that is responsible for many other diseases because it is difficult to find a pathology that is not more common in obese patients”.
At Juaneda Hospitales, we want to avoid the suffering of all our patients. That is why we are always at your disposal to solve your overweight problems in the new obesity department as quickly as possible.
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