Weight Management

Pharmacotherapy can be an important intervention for adolescents with obesity, according to a speaker at the Obesity Medicine Association fall conference.

Although much attention has focused on weight gain in type 2 diabetes, more research is needed on weight management interventions for people with type 1 diabetes, according to a speaker.

Bariatric surgery led to “significantly lower” intracranial pressure and weight in women with idiopathic intracranial hypertension compared with community weight management intervention, according to findings published in JAMA Neurology.

Fetal and infant environments do not cause type 2 diabetes or obesity. Instead, these environments make type 2 diabetes and obesity much more likely because they change the sensitivity of the individual to the obesogenic and metabolic milieu after birth.

Obesity among long-term cancer survivors appeared associated with substantial excess medical spending, reaching $19.7 billion in 2016, according to a study in Cancer.

Adults with obesity participating in a real-world, employer-based weight-management program were significantly more likely to achieve clinically meaningful weight loss when adding pharmacotherapy to shared monthly visits, data show.

Adults with elevated BMI or high variability in BMI over 20 years of adulthood have increased risk for poor cardiometabolic health, according to findings published in Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases.

U.S. adults participating in a digital weight-management program lost less weight in the first 7 weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic vs. participants from a year prior, but the changes did not persist long term, according to study data.

People with obesity and a healthy metabolic profile have a higher risk for heart failure and respiratory disease compared with adults without obesity, according to a study published in Diabetologia.

The FDA approved once-weekly semaglutide injection for chronic weight management in adults with obesity or with overweight and at least one weight-related condition, according to an agency press release.