Weight Loss

BOSTON — In this exclusive video from The Liver Meeting 2019, Rosemary Wickowski, co-founder and chief operating officer of the Fatty Liver Foundation, addresses the liver disease community regarding the optimistic future for patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.

LAS VEGAS — Adults with type 2 diabetes can experience multiple diabetes-specific benefits beyond weight loss by undertaking a low-carbohydrate diet, although potential risks must be addressed, according to a speaker at ObesityWeek.

ATLANTA — Exercise is the one nonpharmacological intervention for which there is a strong recommendation in hip, knee, and hand osteoarthritis, according to a guideline update presented at ACR/ARP 2019.

Patients with obesity who received personalized electronic health record-based coaching in addition to using EHR tools to track their physical activity and diet maintained weight loss better that those who used EHR tools alone, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Despite an increased risk for HF among patients with obesity, there was a paradoxical decline in all-cause mortality, according to a meta-analysis published in Heart.

LAS VEGAS — When an individual has obesity with type 2 diabetes, the treating clinician should first focus on lowering blood glucose — not body weight — to reduce the end-organ complications that lower quality of life and increase mortality risk, according to a speaker at ObesityWeek.

LAS VEGAS — When treating patients with type 2 diabetes who are attempting to lose weight, physicians must incorporate strategies that limit hypoglycemia risks, according to a speaker at ObesityWeek.

Severe energy restriction with a total meal replacement diet among postmenopausal women with obesity induced greater weight loss and approximately 1.5-fold as much loss of whole-body lean mass and thigh muscle area compared with moderate energy restriction over 12 months; however, researchers also observed a greater decrease in hip bone mineral density with severe energy restriction, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open

A cohort of older veterans with obesity who underwent bariatric surgery experienced an initial drop in pharmacy-related costs when compared with matched adults who did not undergo surgery, but overall health care costs remained comparable between groups during 10 years of follow-up, according to findings published in JAMA Surgery.

The week’s top story in cardiology was about a study that found thiazide or thiazide-like diuretics were superior to angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors for hypertension, while drug classes used as monotherapy were comparable.