RESUMEN
On September 30, 2022, a meeting of the interdisciplinary expert council "Prevention and treatment of obesity. How to Achieve a Healthy Metabolic Balance. To reduce the social and economic burden of obesity and its consequences in the Russian Federation, it is necessary to introduce socially significant initiatives to prevent obesity and increase its detection rate, as well as to update modern approaches to the treatment of this chronic disease, taking into account its multifactorial pathogenesis, comorbidity, risk of complications and patient disability. Based on the results of the scientific reports and discussions held during the expert council, the experts made decisions on a further plan within the framework of socially significant initiatives for the prevention of obesity.
