SOURCE-LINKED STUDY SUMMARY
Obesity Management in Adults: A Review.
Abstract summarizedQuality not appraised
- What was studied
- Clinical review of behavioral, nutritional, exercise, medication and procedural approaches to adult obesity.
- Who / model studied
- 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.
- What the study 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.
- Limitations & context
- The review notes that maintaining long-term weight loss is difficult.
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Review record & corrections
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Original publication ↗ · DOI: 10.1001/jama.2023.19897