Clinical Advances in
Obesity is a serious global epidemic and increasing threat to healthcare systems, with huge financial implications. At least 1.1 billion adults are overweight, including 312 million who are obese. Compared with patients of normal weight, risk of death increases by 20%-40% in overweight individuals and by two-to threefold in obese individuals. The Clinical Advances in Treating Obesity as a Chronic Disease: Novel Insights and Strategies curriculum provides education on the latest clinical trial results and therapeutic strategies for obesity management.
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Developed through a partnership between Medscape, World Obesity Federation, and World Organization of Family Doctors.
Metabolic surgery in the treatment algorithm for type 2 diabetes: a joint statement by international diabetes organizations
Clinical practice guidelines for the perioperative nutrition, metabolic, and nonsurgical support of patients undergoing bariatric procedures - 2019 update
Steering Committee Chair
Professor of Medicine, Department of Diabetology, Metabolism and Clinical Nutrition, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium
Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; Director, Center for Lifestyle Medicine, Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology Metabolism and Diabetes; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, USA
Head of the Obesity & Metabolic Syndrome Unit, Department of Endocrinology & Metabolism, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil
Professor of Medicine
University of Liverpool
Liverpool, United Kingdom