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Overview
Top 10 Benefits of Treating Obesity As a Disease
1. Healthful nutrition and regular physical activity often improves
anatomic, physiologic, inflammatory, and metabolic body
processes.
2. Medically managed weight reduction in patients with obesity
often improves glucose and lipid metabolism, reduces blood
pressure, and reduces the risk of thrombosis.
3. Medically supervised weight management programs for patients
with obesity have the potential for statistically significant and
clinically meaningful weight loss maintenance.
4. Weight loss in patients with obesity may reduce disability and
premature mortality.
5. Weight loss in patients with obesity may have favorable cardiac
hemodynamic effects.
6. Weight loss in patients with obesity may improve obstructive
sleep apnea and osteoarthritis.
7. Weight loss in patients with obesity may reduce the onset of
certain cancers, improve response to cancer treatments, and
reduce the onset/recurrence of new cancers.
8. Weight loss in women with obesity may improve polycystic
ovary syndrome, as well as improve obesity-related gynecologic
and obstetric disorders; weight loss in men may increase
testosterone levels in men with hypogonadism.
9. Weight loss in patients with obesity may improve quality of life,
improve body image, and improve symptoms of some psychiatric
disorders (e.g., depression).
10. Weight loss in child-bearing women (and men) with overweight
or obesity may help mitigate epigenetically transmitted
increased risk of obesity and metabolic disease in future
generations.
