Obesity (Clinical Updates in Women Health Care) Obesity

Description

This monograph is designed to enable physicians to:

• Understand the pathophysiology and clinical approaches for the prevention and management of obesity.
• Screen patients for risk factors associated with obesity.
• Counsel patients about lifestyle changes that decrease the risk of obesity.
• Recognise the effect of obesity on reproductive health and pregnancy.
• Evaluate patients and initiate weight control management.
• Treat Patients with uncomplicated illness and refer those with complicated conditions to specialists.

Clinical Updates in Women's Health Care is designed to educate obstetrician-gynaecologists in primary and preventive care issues that relate to office practice. Each peer-reviewed monograph provides a clinically oriented overview of a topic that includes the following features:

• Basic science update of gender-specific information on pathophysiology
• Case Reports of challenging clinical situations
• Counselling points to establish a dialogue with patients
• Complementary and alternative medicine highlights
• Concerns for older women
• Resources for referral, information, and support
• References cited and graded according to the strength of the evidence

Published quarterly, each monograph, which is approximately 80 pages, addresses an issue critical to women:

• How might a disorder present differently in women than in men?
• Why are women at risk for certain conditions?
• What pathophysiologic aspects of disorders are unique in women?
• What type of interventions are appropriate?
• Self-assessment questions are included at the end of each monograph.