Pharmacotherapy for Obesity and Changes in Eating Behavior: a Patient and Physician’s Perspective

This article, co-authored by a patient with obesity, diabetes, and hypertension, and an obesity medicine specialist, discusses the patient’s experience with the onset of diabetes complicating obesity and with her frustration living with these diagnoses until finding an obesity medicine specialist ph...

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Autores principales: Miguelgorry, Piper L., Hendricks, Ed J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Healthcare 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4939162/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27246171
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12325-016-0349-y
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description This article, co-authored by a patient with obesity, diabetes, and hypertension, and an obesity medicine specialist, discusses the patient’s experience with the onset of diabetes complicating obesity and with her frustration living with these diagnoses until finding an obesity medicine specialist physician who helped her lose weight and reverse her diabetes. The patient continues to maintain a significant weight loss and is diabetes free for 5.5 years after treatment initiation. The physician discusses the application of combination treatment that can be effective in diabetes reversal in such cases. He also discusses salient clinical lessons exemplified by this case.
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spelling pubmed-49391622016-07-21 Pharmacotherapy for Obesity and Changes in Eating Behavior: a Patient and Physician’s Perspective Miguelgorry, Piper L. Hendricks, Ed J. Adv Ther Commentary This article, co-authored by a patient with obesity, diabetes, and hypertension, and an obesity medicine specialist, discusses the patient’s experience with the onset of diabetes complicating obesity and with her frustration living with these diagnoses until finding an obesity medicine specialist physician who helped her lose weight and reverse her diabetes. The patient continues to maintain a significant weight loss and is diabetes free for 5.5 years after treatment initiation. The physician discusses the application of combination treatment that can be effective in diabetes reversal in such cases. He also discusses salient clinical lessons exemplified by this case. Springer Healthcare 2016-05-31 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4939162/ /pubmed/27246171 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12325-016-0349-y Text en © The Author(s) 2016 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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