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...

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

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...

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

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

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

associated with obesity, which some have proposed may be caused by stress from the social stigma of obesity, rather than from obesity per se. Anti-fat bias refers...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

war on drugs, the effect of technology on attention span, and anti-obesity medication, which have attracted criticism for inaccuracies and misrepresentation...

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

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

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...

Management of obesity Anti-obesity medication Bariatrics Bariatric surgery Dieting (List of diets) Caloric deficit Exercise (outline) Liposuction Obesity medicine...

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

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

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

20th century that obesity became common — so much so that, in 1997, the World Health Organization (WHO) formally recognized obesity as a global epidemic...

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...

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

that deals with the causes, prevention, and treatment of obesity, encompassing both obesity medicine and bariatric surgery. The term bariatrics was coined...

support, long term increases in physical activity, the use of anti-obesity medications, continued use of meal replacements, and additional periods of...