Implementation of Obesity Science Into Clinical Practice
Published: May 20, 2024
- Obesity is increasingly acknowledged as a public health epidemic, characterized by a multifactorial and complex pathogenesis. Despite progress in managing other population risk factors, the persistent challenge of obesity has hindered efforts to reduce cardiovascular disease burden.
- Overcoming barriers to obesity science implementation necessitates a comprehensive, multi-targeted approach that includes adopting established methodologies, and finding solutions to challenges that span various levels (patient, clinician, system, community), in order to enhance the delivery and accessibility of obesity-targeted therapies while maximizing the effectiveness of guideline-driven care to under-resourced populations with obesity.
- This Scientific Statement describes effective or promising strategies to enhance clinical application of obesity-based research, identify key gaps in the implementation of obesity science into clinical practice, and encourage health care professionals, health care systems and other stakeholders’ efforts to adopt or implement evidence-based obesity science for improved population-level management.
Supporting Materials
- Commentary: Moving Obesity Care to the Forefront of Medicine by Robert F. Kushner, MD, MS, FACP, DABOM, FTOS
- Top Things to Know: Obesity science implementation into clinical practice
Recommended Reading
- News Room: Significant Gaps Between Science of Obesity and the Care Patients Receive
- 2023 Novel Prediction Equations for Absolute Risk Assessment of Total Cardiovascular Disease Incorporating Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Health
- 2023 Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Health
- 2023 A Synopsis of the Evidence for the Science and Clinical Management of Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) Syndrome
- 2023 Increasing Equity of Physical Activity Promotion for Optimal Cardiovascular Health in Adults
- 2022 Life's Essential 8: Updating and Enhancing the American Heart Association’s Construct of Cardiovascular Health
- 2021 Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease
- 2021 Weight-Loss Strategies for Prevention and Treatment of Hypertension
- 2013 AHA/ACC/TOS Guideline for the Management of Overweight and Obesity in Adults