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Do you want to incorporate obesity medicine into your medical practice but don't know where to start? The disease of obesity is increasing at an alarming rate in the US and worldwide.

Help your patients understand Obesity is a disease and it needs to be treated. Obesity is quickly becoming an epidemic in the United States.

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• Obesity is a chronic relapsing progressive disease defined by abnormal or excessive adiposity that may impair health.
• Improved ability to engage in activities of daily living such as improved mo

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• Obesity has a genetic basis as well as environmental and behavioral origins
• Age contributes to a shift in balance between fat and muscle mass
• Various negative feedback loops contribu

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• Numerous organ-specific and biomechanical complications accompany obesity
• Weight loss ameliorates all of these conditions

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• Depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and other psychological conditions frequently are associated with obesity
• Weight loss may positively affect the psychological complications of obesity.

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• Lifestyle interventions effectively prevent physical and metabolic complications of obesity
  • Lifestyle alone is less effective in populations with more severe obesity

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• Weight-loss medications should be considered when obesity-related complications can be ameliorated by weight loss.
• Pharmacotherapy should always be combined with lifestyle therapy, never used

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• Older obesity pharmacotherapies are limited by tolerability and dependence issues and are approved only for short-term use (≤12 weeks).
• Newer weight loss agents are typically better tolerated,

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• Four weight-loss surgical options are available
  • Laparoscopic adjustable gastric band (LAGB)
  • Laparscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG)
  • Biliopancreatic diversion with or witho

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• Evaluation of patients for obesity should include a complete history and physical examination
• Body mass index (BMI) cutpoints vary with race and ethnicity
• Waist circumference

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• Clinical evaluation of obese patients should include a complete history and physical examination
• Comorbidities and obesity complications should also be assessed
• Treatment plans shoul

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• Obesity is increasing globally
  • Rates of obesity have risen dramatically in the U.S.

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• Obesity is associated with higher risks of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes (T2D)
• Weight loss with lifestyle therapy, pharmacotherapy, or bariatric surgery
  • Reduces the risk of progr

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• Obesity is associated with increased cardiovascular risk
• Weight loss by means of lifestyle therapy, pharmacotherapy, or bariatric surgery positively affects cardiovascular risk markers