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  • Approved Obesity Medications and Role of Adjunctive Lifestyle Modifications

    Approved Obesity Medications and Role of Adjunctive Lifestyle Modifications
    2025/07/17
    • Safety and efficacy of FDA-approved obesity medications and role of lifestyle modifications
    • Myth: “Drugs should not be used to treat obesity, because weight will only be regained once weight-loss medications are discontinued”
    • Myth: “All long-term weight-loss medications provide similar weight loss”
    • Myth: “Lifestyle modifications are not as important once a weight-loss medication is started
    • Myth: “Selection of a weight-loss medication is based solely on its weight loss efficacy
    • Misconception: “Obesity medications obtained online are safe and effective”
    • Interprofessional, multidisciplinary support
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    18 分
  • Treatment Overview: Debunking Myths and Misconceptions Regarding Treatment Approaches for Obesity

    Treatment Overview: Debunking Myths and Misconceptions Regarding Treatment Approaches for Obesity
    2025/07/17
    • Myth: “Low fat diets are the best way to reduce body fat”
    • Myth: “Increased physical exercise is the most effective way to reduce body weight
    • Behavior modification
    • Myth: “Vitamins and herbal supplements are effective in achieving weight reduction”
    • Myth: “Bariatric surgery is considered the ‘easy way out’ and reserved for patients who are failures and ‘cheaters’ and is too dangerous for everyone else”
    • Key principles of pharmacological management
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    28 分
  • Goals and Expectations of Obesity Treatment

    Goals and Expectations of Obesity Treatment
    2025/07/17
    • Benefits of treating obesity as a disease
    • Myth: “Weight loss of at least 10% over 6 months is needed for any health benefit”
    • Myth: “Slow and gradual weight reduction is ultimately more effective than large and rapid weight loss”
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    17 分
  • Screening and Diagnosis

    Screening and Diagnosis
    2025/07/17
    • Misconception: “Obesity is classified solely on BMI”
    • Myth: “There is no staging system available for determining obesity-related morbidity and mortality”
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    12 分
  • Obesity as a Serious, Chronic Disease

    Obesity as a Serious, Chronic Disease
    2025/07/17
    • Misconception: “Obesity is a choice, not a disease”
    • Myth: “Individuals with obesity have low metabolism”
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    15 分
  • Purpose and Overview

    Purpose and Overview
    2025/07/17
    • Obesity Medicine Association practice statements
    • Companion social media resource for patients
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    2 分
  • Introduction

    Introduction
    2025/07/16
    • Obesity definitions and key milestones
    • Diagnostic codes
    • Current state of treatment
    • Steps to combat clinician inertia
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    8 分