W Timothy Garvey1, Alan J Garber2, Jeffrey I Mechanick3, George A Bray4, Samuel Dagogo-Jack5, Daniel Einhorn6, George Grunberger7, Yehuda Handelsman8, Charles H Hennekens9, Daniel L Hurley10, Janet McGill11, Pasquale Palumbo12, Guillermo Umpierrez13. 1. UAB Diabetes Research Center, GRECC Investigator and staff physician at the Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, AL. 2. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology & Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. 3. Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY. 4. Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA. 5. University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN. 6. Diabetes and Endocrine Associates, Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute, University of California San Diego, LaJolla, CA. 7. Grunberger Diabetes Institute; Internal Medicine and Molecular Medicine & Genetics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Bloomfield Hills, MI. 8. Metabolic Institute of America, Tarzana, CA. 9. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL. 10. Mayo Clinic Medical School, Rochester, MN. 11. Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Lipid Research, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. 12. Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ. 13. Emory University Department of Medicine/Endocrinology, Atlanta, GA.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE/ METHODS: The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists/American College of Endocrinology "Consensus conference on obesity: building an evidence base for comprehensive action" convened March 23-25, 2014, in Washington, D.C. The premise of the conference was that by bringing together stakeholders in U.S. obesity care, representing the biomedical and public health models, new information would emerge to formulate actionable recommendations. RESULTS: Key conference findings include 5 affirmed and 8 emergent concepts. These concepts include the need for a medically meaningful and actionable diagnosis of obesity, research that evaluates and refines a complications-centric clinical approach to obesity, the need for a better understanding of reimbursement mechanisms and the value associated with obesity prevention and management, increased nutrition and obesity education, and enhanced public awareness and health literacy. CONCLUSION: Next steps include deriving a more robust medical definition of obesity, translation of the affirmed and emergent concepts into actionable recommendations in the interests of patients with obesity, and developing logistics for effective implementation.
OBJECTIVE/ METHODS: The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists/American College of Endocrinology "Consensus conference on obesity: building an evidence base for comprehensive action" convened March 23-25, 2014, in Washington, D.C. The premise of the conference was that by bringing together stakeholders in U.S. obesity care, representing the biomedical and public health models, new information would emerge to formulate actionable recommendations. RESULTS: Key conference findings include 5 affirmed and 8 emergent concepts. These concepts include the need for a medically meaningful and actionable diagnosis of obesity, research that evaluates and refines a complications-centric clinical approach to obesity, the need for a better understanding of reimbursement mechanisms and the value associated with obesity prevention and management, increased nutrition and obesity education, and enhanced public awareness and health literacy. CONCLUSION: Next steps include deriving a more robust medical definition of obesity, translation of the affirmed and emergent concepts into actionable recommendations in the interests of patients with obesity, and developing logistics for effective implementation.
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