Obesity and COVID-19: Meet Patients Where They Are
Americans with obesity and overweight are at greater risk for more severe COVID-19. Clinicians can support them best by asking how they can help.
How Do Health Risks Improve After Weight Loss?
The health benefits of sustained weight loss for persons with obesity could be a valuable topic when a discussion is opened.
So, Obesity Is a Risk for Poor COVID-19 Outcomes – Now What?
If we understand how the disease of obesity compounds COVID-19 severity, how do we put that knowledge to work?
New Insights into the Physiology of Obesity - What They Mean for Primary Care
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?
How Primary Care for Obesity is Changing
Changes in primary care for obesity have moved rapidly in some ways but less so in others. Obesity medicine advocate Ted Kyle details the overall steady progress.
Why is Obesity Medicine the Fastest Growing Medical Specialty in the US?
Obesity Medicine is a young specialty but is expanding quickly in response to the global epidemic of obesity and the many chronic diseases it causes.
