Posts Tagged ‘individual responses’

So many people are chasing the concept of precision medicine for obesity. Because we can easily imagine that the rewards will be great. Right now, in treating obesity the clinical approach is something of a trial and error process. But the wish is to be able to assess a patient and from the start have […]

Scientists have a pretty good handle on how to predict a person’s risk of diabetes and how to diagnose it. The gold standard is a glucose tolerance test. How does your body handle glucose? But diabetes is just one dimension of dietary disease risk and nutrition scientists are hungry for a better way to predict […]

A pair of studies with semaglutide at ECO2024 in Venice goes straight to the heart of some core questions about advanced obesity medicines. Does everyone need the full, maximum dose to get good results? Will everyone have to keep taking that full dose to keep obesity under control? The answer to both questions is no. […]

Much of the world is having a revelation. Stat News call is a revolution. So does Oprah. They are waking up to a very basic fact that we’ve been working with for decades now. Obesity is a chronic, treatable disease. Obesity medicine wasn’t born yesterday. But it has, at times, been lonely. Arthur Frank, a […]