Obesity Medicine

Study: each gain of 5 kg was linked to a 17% drop in odds of healthy aging. A powerful message for young patients.

Take this brief quiz to see what you’ve learned about the challenges and opportunities of obesity management.

Following are answers to the questions primary care physicians most often ask.

As with any other chronic disease, a detailed medical history is important. Individualized interventions recommended.

Often efforts are made in treating the consequences more than the primary cause.

Here are answers to the questions primary care physicians most often ask about patient evaluation.

The answers in this Patient Care Special Report offer easy steps PCPs can take for more efficient and effective treatment.

Findings on fasting, mindful eating, and the flaw in BMI as a measure of body fat are summarized in this 8-slide briefing.

Asthma medications reduced obesity risk. Which type of medication surprised the researchers.

A new study suggests trackers don't help, but medical experts weighed in with a full spectrum of opinions.

Take this quick quiz to see what you know about the latest research findings.

As the prevalence increases, obesity continues to grow as a major health problem. Here are brief summaries of the latest research findings.

The "novel (and contradictory) finding..." say study authors, challenges conventional wisdom as well as current literature.

The new evidence-based, comprehensive recommendations replace 2012's "piecemeal" effort to guide clinical management.

Results of a large Danish cohort study place the BMI measure with lowest risk for all-cause mortality in the "overweight" category.

Even patients who have had the condition for up to 10 years can reverse it by losing weight and then maintaining the weight loss.

Take a quick look at recent primary care happenings that could influence how you practice.

New study findings are grim, suggesting that fewer than 1% of the obese who work at weight loss will have sustained success.

Newer anti-obesity drugs aren't your mother's Fen-Phen, but they also don't come without their own potential downsides.

Questions you were afraid to ask about weight-loss modalities in the context of obesity and type 2 diabetes are answered here.

Nonalcoholic steatosis is the most common cause of liver disease in the USA. Try your hand at our half dozen questions on the hepatic cousins NAFL and NASH.

A new study estimates that 67.6 million Americans age >25 years are obese and an additional 65.2 million are overweight.

In these half-dozen slides, we look at this dangerous combination and the particular challenges it poses to diagnosis and disease management.

Two lesions have been slowly expanding on an older man’s chest for 2 years. What is the problem? This and questions on 3 other topics in this quiz.

Diabetes, obesity, hyperlipidemia, hypothyroidism-these endocrine disorders and others are major reasons why patients come to you. Find out what you know, and don’t know, here.

Should calcium supplementation be SOP? Are all high-fat foods bad? Does the “3500 calorie rule” work? Noodle these and other nutrition questions.

Obesity was declared a hormone-based disease in 2012, creating the need for a structured approach to obesity medicine. The AACE has taken the lead.

Researchers discover new evidence about the interplay between environment and health.

Only one-third of patients with eating disorders are ever asked about their problems with food. Screening in primary care is essential.

Underweight means highest risk, say researchers.