
What will it take to transform obesity care?
New primary care models, increased access to medications and surgery, and more clinical training may help more patients.
New primary care models, increased access to medications and surgery, and more clinical training may help more patients.
A study of a large cohort of children and adolescents suggests that childhood obesity rates have spiked during the COVID-19 era.
In a subset of patients the hormone leptin can be leveraged as a therapeutic agent to move fat out of the liver.
A new study assesses the impact of bariatric surgery on patients with end stage kidney disease.
Being overly restrictive with children’s diets might not be the best strategy; most finicky eaters maintain a healthy childhood weight.
Researchers are excited about the prospect of incorporating polygenic risk scores to predict obesity, but a new study finds genetics adds little to what’s already discovered in clinic.