Anti-obesity medication or weight loss medications are pharmacological agents that reduce or control excess body fat. These medications alter one of the...

Semaglutide is an antidiabetic medication used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and an anti-obesity medication used for long-term weight management...

etc. Anti-obesity medication Lemke, Thomas L.; Williams, David A., eds. (2012). "Anorexiants as Pharmacologic Agents in the Management of Obesity". Foye's...

lead to heart failure and leg swelling. Obesity hypoventilation syndrome is defined as the combination of obesity and an increased blood carbon dioxide...

Obesity classification is a ranking of obesity, the medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it has an adverse effect...

overweight. Some East Asian countries use lower values to calculate obesity. Obesity is a major cause of disability and is correlated with various diseases...

Management of obesity can include lifestyle changes, medications, or surgery. Although many studies have sought effective interventions, there is currently...

increase in physical activity. Both long-term exercise programs and anti-obesity medications reduce abdominal fat volume. Self-monitoring of diet, exercise...

fat fetishism. The number of people with obesity has greatly increased in recent decades. Childhood obesity is correlated to early puberty. Girls who...

Social stigma of obesity is bias or discriminatory behaviors targeted at overweight and obese individuals because of their weight and high body fat percentage...

more, thus it includes pre-obesity defined as a BMI between 25 and 29.9 and obesity as defined by a BMI of 30 or more. Pre-obese and overweight however are...

Australia, and New Zealand), despite large differences in each country's obesity rate. Benefits of physical activity Plateau effect Set point theory Pontzer...

The obesity paradox is the finding in some studies of a lower mortality rate for overweight or obese people within certain subpopulations. The paradox...

directly are difficult, the diagnosis of obesity is often based on BMI. Due to the rising prevalence of obesity in children and its many adverse health...

Obesity medicine is a field of medicine dedicated to the comprehensive treatment of patients with obesity. Obesity medicine takes into account the multi-factorial...

(2022-06-01). "Anti-Obesity Medications and Investigational Agents: An Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) Clinical Practice Statement (CPS) 2022". Obesity Pillars...

surgery or weight loss surgery) is a surgical procedure used to manage obesity and obesity-related conditions. Long term weight loss with bariatric surgery...

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Body_shape_index – Human health index Classification of obesity – Overview of the classification of the condition of obesity Corpulence index – Measure of leanness (corpulence)...

combination fenfluramine/phentermine, usually called fen-phen, is an anti-obesity medication that is no longer widely available. It was sold in the early 1990s...

anesthesiologists to dose certain medications. For example, due to the concern of postoperative opioid-induced ventilatory depression in the obese patient, opioids are...

stigma of obesity Fat acceptance movement Intuitive eating Penney, Tarra L.; Kirk, Sara F. L. (2015). "The Health at Every Size Paradigm and Obesity: Missing...

measures of body fat for defining obesity and underweight: a cross-sectional, population-based study". BMC Obesity. 1: 9. doi:10.1186/2052-9538-1-9. PMC 4511447...

Obesity is a risk factor for many chronic physical and mental illnesses. The health effects of being overweight but not obese are controversial, with...

abdominal obesity to cardiovascular disease (CVD), type 2 diabetes and stroke. Psychosocial stress is also linked to heart disease. Central obesity is a key...

tested in type 2 diabetes and obesity. Preliminary trial results found a greater weight loss compared to either medication alone. HbA1c was significantly...

anticonvulsants, and anti-obesity medications suggest that these medications are superior to placebo in reducing binge eating. Medications are not considered...

predictor of obesity-related cardiovascular disease and a measure of the distribution of body fat. Higher values of WHtR indicate higher risk of obesity-related...

are plentiful and lifestyles are sedentary. Being overweight or having obesity may increase the risk of several diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease...

increase the production capacity and manufacturing of its popular anti-obesity medication. In February 2024, parent company Novo Holdings A/S agreed to acquire...