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Weight Loss Is Still an Essential Intervention in Obesity and its Complications: A Review

Author(s) -

Jianzhong Xiao,

Wenying Yang

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

journal of obesity

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.756

H-Index - 53

eISSN - 2090-0716

pISSN - 2090-0708

DOI - 10.1155/2012/369097

Subject(s) - medicine , weight loss , obesity , pharmacotherapy , intervention (counseling) , diabetes mellitus , intensive care medicine , type 2 diabetes , lifestyle modification , endocrinology , psychiatry

The prevalence of obesity is more than 20% in many developed countries and it increases in developing countries. Obesity is associated with metabolic disorders, cardiovascular diseases, pulmonary diseases, digestive diseases, and cancers. Although other specific treatments for these complications exist, weight loss is still an essential intervention in obesity and its complications. Therapeutic life change, behavior modification, pharmacotherapy, and surgery are major approaches to weight loss. In addition, medicine used in diabetes such as Glucagon-like peptide-1 analogues may be a new type of medicine for obesity, at least for those obese patients with diabetes

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