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Help your patients understand Obesity is a disease and it needs to be treated. Obesity is quickly becoming an epidemic in the United States.

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• Obesity is a chronic relapsing progressive disease defined by abnormal or excessive adiposity that may impair health.
• Improved ability to engage in activities of daily living such as improved mo

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• Obesity has a genetic basis as well as environmental and behavioral origins
• Age contributes to a shift in balance between fat and muscle mass
• Various negative feedback loops contribu

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• Depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and other psychological conditions frequently are associated with obesity
• Weight loss may positively affect the psychological complications of obesity.

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• Lifestyle interventions effectively prevent physical and metabolic complications of obesity
  • Lifestyle alone is less effective in populations with more severe obesity

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• Weight-loss medications should be considered when obesity-related complications can be ameliorated by weight loss.
• Pharmacotherapy should always be combined with lifestyle therapy, never used

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• Older obesity pharmacotherapies are limited by tolerability and dependence issues and are approved only for short-term use (≤12 weeks).
• Newer weight loss agents are typically better tolerated,

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• Four weight-loss surgical options are available
  • Laparoscopic adjustable gastric band (LAGB)
  • Laparscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG)
  • Biliopancreatic diversion with or witho

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• Evaluation of patients for obesity should include a complete history and physical examination
• Body mass index (BMI) cutpoints vary with race and ethnicity
• Waist circumference

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• Clinical evaluation of obese patients should include a complete history and physical examination
• Comorbidities and obesity complications should also be assessed
• Treatment plans shoul

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• Obesity is increasing globally
  • Rates of obesity have risen dramatically in the U.S.

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• Obesity is associated with higher risks of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes (T2D)
• Weight loss with lifestyle therapy, pharmacotherapy, or bariatric surgery
  • Reduces the risk of progr

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• Obesity is associated with increased cardiovascular risk
• Weight loss by means of lifestyle therapy, pharmacotherapy, or bariatric surgery positively affects cardiovascular risk markers

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• Numerous organ-specific and biomechanical complications accompany obesity
• Weight loss ameliorates all of these conditions