Obesity
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How to Manage Patients on GLP-1s Before Surgery
For now, endocrinologists are managing these patients as they see fit, within the parameters of any institutional guidance requirements.
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Continuous Glucose Monitors for All? Opinions Remain Mixed
“For now, efforts should be focused on making CGMs available to patients who will clearly benefit — ie, people with diabetes, especially those who...
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Doctors Caution Over Weight Loss Drug Link to Nurse’s Death
While tirzepatide can be associated with uncommon problems such as acute pancreatitis, “one can develop acute...
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‘Round Face’: A Viral Term’s Real Diagnostic Implications
‘Moon face,’ usually refers to Cushing syndrome or treatment with prolonged high-dose glucocorticoids.
Feature
Are GLP-1s the Newest Fertility Treatment?
Discussing obesity treatment can be a delicate conversation, but one that would be beneficial to have with any patient of reproductive age.
Conference Coverage
Do Patients on Anti-Obesity Drugs Decrease Alcohol Use?
This new study is the first to examine the relationship with different classes of anti-obesity medications and to quantify the amount of alcohol...
From the Journals
GLP-1 RAs Safe in the Perioperative Period: New Guidance
GLP-1 RAs are known to delay gastric emptying, raising concerns about regurgitation, aspiration, and airway compromise during anesthesia.
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Treating Obesity May Reduce Pelvic Organ Prolapse Risk
“We found that waist/height ratio combined with BMI could help differentiate individuals with varying risks of prolapse more accurately.”
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Knowledge Gaps About Obesity Medicine Seen in Primary Care
“The treatment of obesity as a disease, especially with some of the newer medical treatments, is not standard of care and practiced widely.”
Commentary
America’s PCPs: Take a Bow
Important drops in drug overdoses, obesity, and smoking may be attributable in part to the work of primary care physicians.
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Coming Soon: A New Disease Definition, ‘Clinical Obesity’
“I think it’ll help explain and move medicine as a whole in a direction to a greater understanding of obesity actually being a disease, how to...