Handbook of Obesity: Clinical Applications for Evaluation, Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment

Volume 2 of the 5th Edition of the Handbook of Obesity, authored by George A. Bray, provides comprehensive insights into clinical applications for the evaluation, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of obesity. This edition covers significant developments since the previous edition, including the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on individuals with obesity, the concept of Precision Medicine, and newly approved medications by the USFDA that aid in achieving a weight loss of 15 to 20%.

Part 1: Evolutionary Insights and Implications

This part of the handbook offers insights from evolution on changes in diet and physical activity, and the implications and results for preventing obesity, health care costs associated with obesity, and the cost-effectiveness of obesity prevention and treatment.

Part 2: Evaluating Overweight Patients

Part 2 deals with the evaluation of overweight patients, approaches for classifying obesity, and using this knowledge to evaluate patients. It also addresses ethnic and racial considerations in evaluating patients with obesity.

Part 3: Lifestyle Management of Obesity

This section explains the impact of lifestyle in managing obesity, including behavioural management, diet, dietary composition, meal timing, and the effects of physical activity and exercise in weight loss and weight loss maintenance.

Part 4: Medications in the Management of Obesity

Part 4 focuses on medications in the management of obesity, including drug selection, various classes of drugs, combination of drugs affecting weight loss, the effect of herbal agents on weight loss, and treatment of obesity in pediatric populations, genetic diseases causing obesity, and the role of drugs in treating dyslipidemias.

Part 5: Surgical Techniques for Obesity Treatment

The final part of the handbook discusses bariatric surgery, its history, procedure, and effects in detail, as well as other surgical techniques including electric stimulation of the vagus nerve, gastric balloons, intestinal liners, and liposuction.

Product Details:

Publisher: CRC Press; December 1, 2023

Language: English

ISBN: 9781032551081, 9781000960389