EASO collaborating centers for obesity management (COMs)

Criteria for EASO-collaborating centres for obesity management.

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 ...

An EASO Position Statement on Multidisciplinary Obesity Management in Adults

Obesity has proven to be a gateway to ill health. It has already reached epidemic proportions becoming one of the leading causes of death and disability in Europe and world-wide. Obesity plays a central role in the development of a number of risk factors and chronic diseases like hypertension, dyslipidaemia and type 2 diabetes mellitus inducing cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Therefore ...

An EASO goal achieved! OBESITY FACTS launched as official journal of EASO.

Welcome to OBESITY FACTS, the official journal of the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO)!

FACTS is published bimonthly online (ISSN 1662–4033) and in print (ISSN 1662–4025), but our aim is to appear on a monthly basis in the near future. Due to the fast track system, the span between submission of a paper and its publication can be kept short. Accepted articles will appear online first as prepublication. Go to www.karger.com/ofa to see for yourself! Before we briefly dwell on the co...

Collaborating with the Enemy on Network Management

Software Defined Networking (SDN) deconstructs the current routing infrastructure into a small number of controllers, which are general purpose computers, and a large number of switches which are programmable forwarding engines. It is already deployed in data centres, where it offers considerable advantages of both cost and flexibility over a switching fabric of traditional routers. Such applic...