Obesity Management in Adults: A Review.

Studied

Clinical review of behavioral, nutritional, exercise, medication and procedural approaches to adult obesity.

Who / model

Adults with overweight or obesity. The abstract does not state a total number of participants across the reviewed evidence.

Studied dose & schedule

Dose and schedule have not yet been extracted for this summary.

Found

The review summarizes weight loss of approximately 5% to 10% with behavioral interventions, 8% to 21% with incretin-based medicines, and 25% to 30% with bariatric surgery. It describes combining approaches to fit individual patients, rather than reporting one new comparison trial.

Limits

The review notes that maintaining long-term weight loss is difficult.

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