The standard of care for treating overweight and obesity is daily caloric restriction (DCR). While this approach produces modest weight loss, adherence to DCR declines over time and weight regain is common. Intermittent fasting (IMF) is an alternative di
type I or type II diabetes, malignancies, thyroid disease, liver disease, or kidney disease. Other exclusion criteria included menopause, pregnancy, breastfeeding, taking supplements for weight loss, dieting within the previous year, and taking medications that lower lipids, glucose, and blood pressur...
Low adoption of weight loss medications: a comparison of prescribing patterns of antiobesity pharmacotherapies and SGLT2s. Obesity (Silver Spring) 2016;24:1955-1961.Thomas CE, Mauer EA, Shukla AP, Rathi S, Aronne LJ. Low adoption of weight loss medications: a comparison of prescribing ...
Main Outcomes and Measures Nine markers of patient complexity (number of comorbidities, presence of mental illness, number of types of physicians involved in each patient’s care, number of physicians involved in each patient’s care, number of prescribed medications, number of emergency department ...
In brief, presence of type 2 diabetes in Teen-LABS participants was defined as use of medications for diabetes, baseline hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) concentration of 6.5% or higher (to convert to proportion of hemoglobin, multiply by 0.01), fasting glucose concentration of 126 mg/dL or higher (...
For the first time, patients who are obese are able to benefit from 5 different FDA approved pharmacologic agents for chronic weight management. Although weight loss from all of these medications was limited to 5% to 10% of total body weight loss in the Phase III clinical trials, patients are...
Finally, further adjustments were made for hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus, and the use of antihypertensive, antihyperlipidemic, and antidiabetic medications (model 3). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses were performed to assess the sex-specific discriminatory ability of ...
Exclusion criteria included uncontrolled psychiatric conditions (e.g., psychosis), substance abuse, current participation in a structured weight loss program, pregnancy, or use of medications that would affect weight. Results: The interpersonal psychotherapy group had significantly less attrition than the ...
The number of prescription medications (mean, 2.4) did not significantly change in the 126 participants who remained in the study for at least 2 months. The net change in total number of prescription medications for the Atkins, Zone, Weight Watchers, and Ornish groups was +7, –4, –7, ...
Premenopausal women aged 25 to 50 years were invited to enroll if their body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) was 27 to 40, body weight was stable over the previous 2 months, and medications were stable for at least 3 months. Women were ...