Dr. Kevin B. Smith's Obesity Medicine Board Questions: Board style questions to Prepare for the Obesity Certification
adults age 20 and older are currently living with obesity, and that number is projected to rise to nearly half of the American population by the year 2030, per research from the New England Journal of Medicine. Contributing to eight of the 10 leading causes of death in the U.S., obesity...
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The Obesity Medicine Association defines obesity as “a chronic, relapsing, multifactorial, neurobehavioral disease, wherein an increase in body fat promotes adipose tissue dysfunction and abnormal fat mass physical forces, resulting in adverse metabolic, biomechanical, and psychosocial health consequences”...
The clinical trials included in the present study were extracted from PubMed using the following keywords in separate: “obesity”, “anti-obesity drugs”, “anti-obesity effects”, “anti-obesity drug effectiveness”, “anti-obesity medicine effectiveness”, “orlistat obesity effectiveness”, “lira...
Genetics can contribute anywhere from 40% to 70% of obesity cases, according to the Obesity Medicine Association, and there are more than 200 genes known to be strongly associated with the disease. In most cases, a person is born with multiple genes that increase—but don’t necessarily guara...
Both Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy reduced health care expenditures after surgery for adults with type 2 diabetes and obesity, according to data published in Annals of Internal Medicine. January 27, 2025 3 min read Save
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Department of MedicineStephen CookDepartment of MedicineLouis J. AronneDepartment of MedicineTeaching and Learning in MedicineKushner RF, Butsch WS, Kahan S, Machineni S, Cook S, Aronne LJ. Obesity coverage on medical licensing examinations in the United States. What is being tested? Teach Learn...
Introduction Ischemic heart disease, cancer, and stroke are the leading causes of death worldwide, in recent years [1]. These diseases are related to the “epidemic of obesity,” one of the major global health concerns [2]. Due to high-calorie diet and sedentary lifestyle, obesity is highl...