Fighting the Uphill Battle: Current Evidence in Obesity Management

Program Overview

The current obesity epidemic shows no signs of slowing down and the factors driving it are numerous, including patient and clinician attitudes toward weight loss, a lack of clinician familiarity with guidelines, a lack of effective long-term weight-loss options, and a hesitancy among physicians to recognize obesity as a medical condition and discuss weight with their patients. Recent evidence demonstrates that primary care providers are hesitant to recommend weight-loss pharmacotherapies even in guideline-recommended settings, and many clinicians who do recommend pharmacotherapies prescribe them for too short of a course.

“Fighting the Uphill Battle: Current Evidence in Obesity Management” will provide clinicians with the latest evidence regarding obesity management in a form that can be readily integrated into practice. Clinicians will also receive real-world strategies for effectively addressing weight with their patients and initiating conversations that can begin to reverse the obesity trend that pervades society.
Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

Adopt strategies to foster effective discussions about weight loss with patients who are overweight
Evaluate the roles and risks/benefits of behavioral and pharmacological weight-loss interventions
Integrate guideline recommendations for assessing obesity in patients and making evidence-based recommendations for weight loss