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Management of Obesity, Part 2: Treatment Strategies, An Issue of Gastroenterology Clinics of North America
- 1st Edition, Volume 52-4 - November 4, 2023
- Editors: Lee M. Kaplan, Amanda Velazquez
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 4 0 1 3 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 4 0 1 4 - 6
In this issue of Gastroenterology Clinics, guest editor Dr. Lee M. Kaplan brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Management of Obesity, Part 2: Treatment Strategies.… Read more
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Gastroenterology Clinics, guest editor Dr. Lee M. Kaplan brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Management of Obesity, Part 2: Treatment Strategies. Thirteen percent of the world’s population are obese, and most of the world’s population live in countries where being overweight and obese kills more people than being underweight. In this second issue (of two), key experts address treatment and prevention strategies for obesity, including bariatric surgery, medical management, and lifestyle modifications.
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Contains 16 practice-oriented topics including bariatric and metabolic surgery; mechanisms of weight loss and metabolic improvement after bariatric surgery; endoscopic therapies for obesity and its complications; obesity and viral infections including SARS-Cov-2; the future of obesity care; and more.
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Provides in-depth clinical reviews on management of obesity, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
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Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Gastroenterologists
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Preface
- Lifestyle-Based Obesity Care
- Key points
- Introduction and background
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Funding text
- The Effective Use of Anti-obesity Medications
- Key points
- Introduction
- Expected weight loss with anti-obesity medications versus alternative obesity treatments
- On-label anti-obesity medications
- Setmelanotide
- Discussion
- Clinics care points
- Emerging Endoscopic Interventions in Bariatric Surgery
- Key points
- Introduction
- Devices
- Endoluminal bypass barrier sleeves
- Procedures
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Mechanisms of Action of Bariatric Surgery on Body Weight Regulation
- Key points
- Introduction
- Mechanisms responsible for weight loss after bariatric surgery
- Summary
- Clinic care points
- Surgical Management of Bariatric Complications and Weight Regain
- Key points
- Complications
- Inadequate weight loss and weight regain
- Adjustable gastric band
- Sleeve gastrectomy
- Roux-EN-Y gastric bypass
- Single-anastomosis duodenal ileostomy and duodenal switch
- Summary
- Endoscopic Management of Surgical Complications of Bariatric Surgery
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Management of Monogenic and Syndromic Obesity
- Key points
- Introduction
- Metreleptin for leptin deficiency
- Setmelanotide for LEPR, POMC, and PCSK1 deficiencies
- MC4R deficiency
- Ciliopathies converging on the leptin pathway
- Treatment of Prader-Willi Syndrome
- Other anti-obesity medications in Prader-Willi syndrome
- Conclusions and future directions
- Clinics care points
- Management of Medication-Induced Weight Gain
- Key points
- Introduction
- Antidiabetes medications
- Psychotropic medications
- Anticonvulsants
- Antihypertensives
- Antihistamines
- Contraceptives, hormones, steroids
- Discussion
- Language Frames and Shapes the Response to Obesity
- Key points
- Introduction
- A stigmatized diagnosis
- The language of panic
- People first
- Weight loss and obesity care
- Summary
- Clinical care points
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 52-4
- Published: November 4, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323940139
- eBook ISBN: 9780323940146
LK
Lee M. Kaplan
Affiliations and expertise
Director, Obesity, Metabolism & Nutrition Institute, Founding Director of the Weight Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of the Subspecialty Fellowship Program in Obesity Medicine and Nutrition, MGH
Director of the NIH-sponsored Small Animal Metabolic Surgery Core Resource Associate Director of the NIH-sponsored Boston area Nutrition and Obesity Research Center , Immediate Past Chair of the Campaign to End Obesity