Evaluation and Management of Obesity

Designed to be a concise, clinically useful guide to the evaluation and management of overweight and obese patients, this book will cover a range of topics that are relevant for primary care physicians, nurse practitioners/physician assistants, primary care residents, and medical students. The authors are all practicing MDs, dieticians, and PhDs who work with overweight and obese patients. They discuss practical issues that have been helpful for them when seeing these patients. It will provide focused, clinically useful information that the healthcare provider can immediately put to use in the office.

The book is an outgrowth of a program called CORE (Centers for Obesity Research and Education); an educational initiative involving 8 leading obesity centers in the United States (Mayo Clinic, University of Colorado, Northwestern, Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston, University of Minnesota, UCLA, The Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge LA, and St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital in New York). CORE has been providing interactive educational programs to primary care physicians, nurse practitioners/physician assistants, and primary care residents. The content in the book comes from the authors' collective experiences providing this kind of education to the target audience.

Features

• A practical, usable handbook format
• Authors and contributors are among the major names in the field
• Latest, cutting edge information

Contents

1. Defining the Scope of the Problem of Obesity

2. Office-based Obesity Care: Setting Up the Office Environment

3. Medical Evaluation of the Overweight or Obese Patient

4. Body Composition Analysis

5. Goals and Strategies to Improve Behavior-Change Effectiveness

6. Applying Stages of Change Theory to Office-Based Counseling

7. Diets

8. Commercial Programs

9. The Role of Meal Replacements in Weight Control

10. Talking to Patients About Popular Diet Books

11. Very-Low-Calorie Diets

12. Physical Activity Considerations for Management of Body Weight

13. Non-Prescription Weight-Loss Products

14. Pharmacologic Therapy

15. Ethical Consideration in the Use of Medications

16. Surgical Treatment of Obesity

17. The National Weight Control Registry

18. Primary Care Management of Pediatric Obesity

19. Insurance Coverage for Obesity Treatment

20. Obesity Web Resources for Health Professionals

21. Regulation of Appetite by the Central Nervous System

22. Obesity and the Environment Index