Weight Loss

BOSTON — For adults with type 2 diabetes, time-restricted eating was associated with greater weight loss and body fat loss than calorie-restricted eating, according to research presented at NUTRITION.

Water fasting offers clinically significant weight loss, but metabolic benefits seem to be short-lived, according to an expert.

Both time-restricted eating and calorie restriction were more effective in reducing weight at 1 year among a diverse participant population compared with no intervention, according to results of a small randomized controlled trial.

Healio spoke with Philip J. Mease, MD, about non-pharmacological and complementary management options in psoriatic arthritis.

SAN DIEGO — Adults with overweight or obesity lost up to 18.7% of their body weight at 46 weeks with a glucagon/GLP-1 dual agonist, according to a speaker.

Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty was more effective for weight loss than lifestyle modification alone in patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and obesity, according to a speaker at EASL Congress.

SAN DIEGO — Adults with obesity who received the highest dose of a once-weekly injection of retatrutide lost an average of 24.2% of their body weight at 48 weeks compared with placebo, data from a phase 2 study show.

SAN DIEGO — Oral semaglutide 50 mg induces more than 15% weight loss in adults with obesity at 68 weeks and can reduce HbA1c by 2 percentage points at 52 weeks for those with type 2 diabetes, according to data from two phase 3 trials.

SAN DIEGO — Early time-restricted eating may confer more cardiometabolic benefits for adults than late time-restricted eating, but a later eating window may result in better adherence, according to two speakers.

SAN DIEGO — In this video exclusive, Sangeeta Kashyap, MD, discusses how weight loss is the key to type 2 diabetes remission and how remission can be possible in both short- and long-term scenarios.