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BMI alone will no longer be treated as the go-to measure for weight management. An obesity medicine physician explains
On June 14, 2023, the American Medical Association adopted a new policy, calling on doctors to deemphasize the role of body mass index, or BMI, in clinical practice.
Employees with obesity may have higher loss of work productivity than those with normal weight
People with obesity may have lower work productivity due to increased risk of illness, contributing to increased costs for employers, according to industry-supported research being presented Saturday at ENDO 2023, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting, in Chicago, Ill.
Cardiovascular disease with obesity associated with more illness, death and medical costs than obesity alone
Adults at high cardiovascular risk and living with overweight or obesity experience a higher number of cardiovascular events (such as heart attack and stroke), are at greater risk of dying prematurely
Too few primary care doctors address obesity with their patients, highlighting need for weight loss tool
After finding that few to no clinicians provided weight management care, researchers developed a weight loss tool called PATHWEIGH. This tool was designed to remove clinician barriers in providing patient care that addressed weight.
Weight gain in late teens and 20s associated with higher risk of fatal prostate cancer
The analysis of data on more than 250,000 men in Sweden found that weight gain over the course of a man's life was associated with developing prostate cancer overall and aggressive and fatal prostate cancer.
