Obesity Medicine

New research presented at ObesityWeek®2020 showed no statistical difference in severe COVID-19 outcomes between normal and obese patients.

Patients with obesity who utilized telemedicine services during quarantine achieved an average 2 kg weight loss, according to new research presented at the ObesityWeek®2020 virtual meeting.

Preventive Cardiology Collection Table of Contents: Expert video interviews, short, clinical guideline-focused quizzes, facts at-a-glance slideshows, plus news.

A longitudinal study of weight reduction in adolescents was redesigned to accommodate pandemic lockdown--and the results are very concerning.

Rapidly rising obesity rates in the US threaten to reverse decades of effort against cardiometabolic disease. How well do you know what experts recommend for your at-risk patients?

Carl "Chip" Lavie, MD, author of the original book titled, "The Obesity Paradox" explains the paradox of metabolic health in the obese, how it wanes, and an essential element to maintain it.

Waist circumference measures, complementary antihypertensives, appropriate exercise levels for T2D patients--test what you know about cardiometabolic risk and management.

Weight loss is essential to arrest the cardiovascular disease and metabolic dysfunction linked to obesity. What do you know about the drugs now available that may help?

New research from Sweden shows patients who have received bariatric surgery live 3 years longer, on average, than those given conventional treatment for their obesity.

The health benefits of sustained weight loss for persons with obesity could be a valuable topic when a discussion is opened.

New CDC data show 12 states had an adult obesity prevalence of ≥35% in 2019 compared to 9 states in 2018 and 6 states in 2017.

Youth who experienced weight stigma prior to COVID-19 were 3-times more likely to engage in binge eating during the pandemic vs those who had not, a new study found.

In patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes, metabolic improvements were similar after weight loss induced by surgery or a low-calorie diet.

Patients with severe obesity are 4-times as likely to die from COVID-19, a new study finds, with younger patients and men with obesity at highest risk.

In this 8-part video series, obesity expert Donna Ryan, MD, talks about the danger of COVID-19 for obesity patients, challenges facing PCPs of caring for this population, and more.

If we understand how the disease of obesity compounds COVID-19 severity, how do we put that knowledge to work?

VIDEO: Obesity is a chronic, relapsing disease that threatens to neutralize, even reverse, years of progress in reducing CVD-related death. Ted Kyle, RPh, explores.

Obesity is a primary risk factor for cardiovascular disease and can also be modified with comprehensive care. Test yourself on the AHA/ACC recommendations for that care.

Jorge Plutzky, MD, director of the Preventive Cardiology Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital, discusses the insidious role diabetes plays in cardiovascular disease.

The physiology of obesity makes weight loss, by itself, unlikely to successfully treat the chronic disease of obesity. What does this mean for primary care clinical strategies?

Why are people with obesity at high risk for severe COVID-19 infection? Dr Caroline Apovian explains that immunity in this population has begun to senesce.

Metabolic and bariatric surgery are deemed "elective," along with cosmetic procedures, and still widely postponed. "Resume these life-saving procedures, now," says the ASMBS.

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass remains the gold standard of bariatric surgery. Obesity and nutrition expert Caroline Apovian, MD, explains why and how it differs from the 3 other types of weight loss surgery.

From highest percentage of obese children to lowest percentage of adults with high cholesterol, see how obesity hits home state by state in our new slideshow.

The structural changes created in bariatric surgery increase the release of gut hormones that communicate satiety to the brain.