Data_Sheet_1_The Burden of Obesity in Egypt.ZIP

Objective: Estimating the burden of obesity to society is an essential step in setting priorities and raising awareness. We aimed to assess the clinical, humanistic and economic burden of obesity for adults in Egypt.
Methods: We used the population attributable fraction concept to estimate the burden. A non-systematic review was conducted to estimate the prevalence of obesity and its comorbidities in addition to the obesity attributable fraction. Patient numbers, direct healthcare costs, disability adjusted life years (DALYs) and attributable mortality were estimated.
Results: Obesity is a major contributor to the development of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, obstructive sleep apnea and fatty liver, in addition to several serious diseases. The estimated annual deaths due to obesity was about 115 thousand (19.08% of the total estimated deaths in 2020). DALYs attributable to obesity may have reached 4 million in 2020.The economic burden imposed by obesity is around 62 Billion Egyptian pounds annually. This value is the cost of treating diseases attributable to obesity in adults.
Conclusions: Diseases attributable to obesity create a huge economic, humanistic, and clinical burden in Egypt. Reducing obesity could help dramatically decrease the catastrophic health effect of these diseases which in turn decreases mortality and DALYs lost.

研究目的：估算肥胖对社会造成的负担，是制定公共卫生优先事项与提升公众健康认知的必要前提。本研究旨在评估埃及成年人群肥胖所带来的临床、人文及经济负担。
研究方法：本研究采用人群归因分值（population attributable fraction）的概念开展疾病负担估算。通过开展非系统综述，估算肥胖及其共病的患病率，并计算肥胖归因分值。本研究同时估算了相关患者数量、直接医疗成本、伤残调整寿命年（disability adjusted life years, DALYs）以及归因死亡数。
研究结果：肥胖是糖尿病、高血压、阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停及脂肪肝等多种重症发生的重要诱因。据估算，2020年因肥胖导致的年死亡人数约为11.5万，占当年总估算死亡数的19.08%。2020年，与肥胖相关的伤残调整寿命年或已达400万。肥胖造成的经济负担每年约为620亿埃及镑，该数值为埃及成年人群中肥胖相关性疾病的治疗总成本。
研究结论：在埃及，肥胖相关性疾病带来了沉重的经济、人文与临床负担。通过防控肥胖，可显著减轻此类疾病的灾难性健康影响，进而降低死亡人数与伤残调整寿命年损失。