Obesity

BOSTON — New drugs and devices can reduce weight and weight-related comorbidities, and physicians should optimize therapy choices for patients with several common conditions to reduce their cardiometabolic risk, according to a speaker.

Healio has launched a new point-of-care tool with modules on medical conditions to help clinicians treat patients using reliable information.

Attendees of a workshop identified several barriers to managing obesity in patients with chronic kidney disease and published their findings in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

BOSTON — In this Healio video exclusive, a co-chair of the Cardiometabolic Health Congress discusses various highlights from the first 2.5 days of the meeting.

BOSTON — So-called pre-obesity, or a BMI between 25 and 30 kg/m2, is associated with all-cause and cause-specific mortality similar to overt obesity and treatment should begin early to reduce cardiometabolic risk, according to a speaker.

The AGA has released its first guideline endorsing the use of four medications for obesity management, when paired with lifestyle interventions, for patients who have failed to lose weight with diet and exercise alone.

Increasing BMI in young adult men is strongly associated with early atrial fibrillation as well as later worse clinical outcomes, including incident HF, stroke and all-cause mortality, among those diagnosed with AF, researchers reported.

With Obesity Medicine Association’s Fall Summit right around the corner, conference attendees — just like myself — are taking a look at the schedule and planning their 2022 conference experience.  

Combining time-restricted eating with high-intensity interval training led to greater reductions in visceral fat among women compared with either intervention alone, according to a recent study.

Two-thirds of patients who underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy experienced clinically important improvements in pain and physical function 7 years after surgery, according to research published in JAMA Network Open.