Obesity Central

Healio spoke with Grace Cheng, PharmD, APh, BCACP, BCGP, about what types of medication may have lowered efficacy among patients with obesity, how to inform patients about these medications and more.

BMI is widely used to classify patients into weight groups and to identify those at higher risk for a variety of conditions, including type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and certain cancers.

For patients with obesity, medical management options offer a new opportunity for successful treatment.

Healio spoke with Bartolome Burguera, MD, chair of the Endocrinology and Metabolism Institute and a professor in the Lerner Institute of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, and Kristin Englund, MD, an infectious disease physician who leads the reCOVer Clinic — the Cleveland Clinic’s center for patients with long COVID-19 — to learn more about long COVID-19 among patients with obesity.

To highlight recent treatment approvals, study findings and other important research results on obesity released amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Healio compiled a list of game-changing coverage on obesity from the past year.