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Family Practice Vol. 21, No. 3, 324-328
Family Practice Vol. 21, No. 3 © Oxford University Press 2004, all rights reserved.

Selections from Current Literature

The spectrum of treatment options for obesity

Leah Nemerson, Lorraine Danowski and Jeffrey S Trilling

Department of Family Medicine, Health Sciences Center, L-4 R050, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA

Nemerson L, Danowski L and Trilling JS. The spectrum of treatment options for obesity. Family Practice 2004; 21: 324–328.

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   Introduction
 
Throughout the world there are currently more than 1 billion overweight adults. At least 300 million of these are clinically obese.1 An estimated 64% of US adults are either overweight or obese as defined by a body mass index (BMI) >=25. This represents an 8% increase since the NHANES III 1988–1994 data. Obesity, defined as a BMI >=30.0, has risen from 15% in 1980 to 27% in 1999 as reflected by the NHANES 1999 and NHANES II 1976–1980 data.2,3 The cost associated with conditions of overweight and obesity, in the USA, was >$117 billion in 2000.4

Obesity is a complex condition with a multifactorial aetiology elusive to intervention. Traditional treatment options do not always yield favourable outcomes, the resultant general perception being that successful long-term maintenance of weight loss is rare.

The National Weight Control Registry (NWCR) evaluates the weight loss and weight maintenance strategies of successful ‘weight loss maintainers’. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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