Statement on the current treatment of severe obesity in Spain.

The Spanish Society for Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Diseases and the Spanish Society for the Study of Obesity, with the support of the Obesity Section of the Spanish Surgeons’ Association, based on the increasing importance of severe obesity in our society, the information available, and the difficulties found by patients to access structured treatment circuits, have decided to prepare the following decalogue, directed to administration and society as a whole and intended to reflect the current situation, the existing needs, and the reference framework for adequate management: