Endocrinology

Dr Khanna urges early screening for cardiometabolic risk in patients with obesity and highlights the role of primary care in prevention and education.

Without a shift in the approach to disease prevention and management in the US, the health system won't be able to handle the burden of our morbidity, says Richard Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, MBA.

Richard Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, MBA, led the development of lifestyle medicine guidelines to treat or even reverse prediabetes and type 2 diabetes.

Monu Khanna, MD, discusses the benefits of behavioral strategies, including yoga, breathwork, and dancing, in reducing cardiovascular disease risk in patients with obesity.

Lead author for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine's new clinical practice guideline discusses the broad endorsement for the recommendations across participating groups.

Treatment should address root causes, including lifestyle modifications, stress management, and gut health, Monu Khanna, MD, told Patient Care.

Key predictors of the severity of self-reported cognitive complaints among nurses going through menopause included symptom severity and climacteric stage.

Lifestyle medicine integrates a spectrum of therapeutic lifestyle interventions best delivered by specialists who are often available to create a "virtual" team.

Dr Khanna breaks down the bidirectional relationship and explains why standard pain management often falls short for people with obesity.

A recent study highlights the importance of medication adherence for significant weight loss and improved glycemic control in obesity treatment with GLP-1 agonists.

Richard Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, MBA, lead author of new guidelines on sustained lifestyle change as central to treating, even reversing T2D, answers the question.

Monu Khanna, MD, discusses common medications, non-drug strategies, and holistic approaches to improve outcomes.

GLP-1 medications are transforming obesity medicine but strong evidence points to a need for integrating nutrition and lifestyle support for lasting weight loss and health benefits.

Richard Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, MBA, explains how clinical guidelines for diabetes remission from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine differ from and augment existing recommendations.

Dr Khanna discusses dosing challenges, metabolic issues, and potential complications from medications like acetaminophen.

Body fat percentage and waist circumference were both significantly associated with 15-year all-cause mortality while BMI had no significant association.

The American College of Lifestyle Medicine recently published "that guideline," and lead author Richard Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, MBA, says the timing was right.

ADA 2025: Dapiglutide showed promising safety and weight loss results in a phase 1b trial, targeting obesity and inflammation with once-weekly dosing.

Obesity treatment evolves as GLP-1 medication use surges 587%, while bariatric surgery rates decline significantly. A new analysis parses the trends.

ADA 2025: Once-monthly dosing led to significant weight loss in adults with obesity, with or without type 2 diabetes, reported researchers.

Viking Therapeutics initiates phase 3 trials for VK2735, a promising dual incretin agonist targeting obesity and other metabolic disorders, based on strong phase 2 findings.

ADA 2025: Mifepristone lowered HbA1c levels by about 1.5% over 24 weeks vs placebo among participants with hypercortisolism and inadequately controlled T2D.

Lundbeck announced the designation today and said it is expanding an ongoing phase I/II clinical open label trial of the investigational mAb in adults with classic CAH.

ADA 2025: The combination of the GLP-1 RA and novel monoclonal antibody yielded 92.8% of total weight loss from fat mass and 22.1% decrease in baseline weight.

ADA 2025: Orforglipron lowered HbA1C by an average of 1.3% to 1.6% across doses, with improvements seen as early as 4 weeks, in a phase 3 trial.

ADA 2025: An intervention to emphasize weight-related care in primary care settings eliminated weight gain at the population level, researchers report.

Weight cycling significantly raises heart failure and metabolic disease risks, independent of baseline overweight, underscoring the importance of stable weight strategies.

ADA 2025: Insulin efsitora proved noninferior to daily insulin glargine for reducing HbA1c, resulted in fewer episodes of hypoglycemia, and required fewer dose adjustments.

Advances in obesity pharmacotherapy will be the focus of numerous late-breaking science sessions at ADA 2025; snapshots of 5 studies follow.