Just wrapped up my #TROA meetings on Capitol Hill, now headed to the White House grounds. OAC #WorldObesityDay2024

Great Obesity Care Week sponsored by OAC #meeting with Rep. Joe Neguse #staff from the #great #state of #Colorado !!
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Doing all things Obesity Care Week w/my #colleagues from OAC visiting the #staff of @senatorhick
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Didn’t have an appointment but made sure my other California Senator Laphonza Butler had all the information to also sign on to the Treat and Reduce Obesity Act #TROA Let’s lead on this important issue #ObesityCareWeek #OACAction

Thank you Congresswoman Bonnie Watman Schultz for cosponsoring TROA. OAC

Did you know? #WODEurope

'Obesity is a complex interaction of different factors, for different people, in different countries and cultures. This World Obesity Day, let's share knowledge, advocate together, and see obesity from a different perspective.'
#WorldObesityDay #ObesityCareWeek

Save the date! Obesity Care Week 2024 will be held March 4-8. Join @obesityadvocacy to learn more and help change the way we care FOR and ABOUT #obesity ! Visit obesitycareweek.org to sign up for alerts! #ObesityCareWeek

Bariatric surgery is an effective and durable treatment to control hypertension and related polypharmacy in subjects with obesity. @neilflochmd
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🚨 #Tirzepatide lowers 24-hr BP in SURMOUNT-1

👉Seen with all TZP doses, across day and night BP
👉Change in systolic BP correlated with weight loss
👉Consistent across subgroups: age, sex, BMI, PreDM
⚠️Subset analysis and Na excretion not measured

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Speaking الجمعية السعودية لطب وجراحة السمنة in Jeddah about >10 yr results of Metabolic Surgery for control of #T2D and obesity. Still the only treatment that yields diabetes remission > 10 yrs. #SASMBS الدكتور عائض القحطاني Prof Aayed Alqahtani Ali Aminian Pennington Biomedical Research Center Our Lady of the Lake LSU Department of Surgery ASMBS IFSO

🚨Dual Glucagon-GLP-1 RA #survodutide phase 2 results for treating #obesity
👉Mean WL 14.9% at 46 weeks
👉33% achieved ≥20% WL
🤢GI AE 75% vs 42% PBO
❓Added CKM benefits from GCG
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Has @NovoNordisk handed Eli Lilly and Company a golden opportunity to take leadership in the market for #ObesityMeds that Novo methodically built? Will #AccessToCare improve with the launch of #Zepbound . We have guarded optimism.
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In a recent episode of CNBC's Squawk Box, OMA President Angela Fitch,MD discusses the results of the SELECT Trial and the importance of #insurance coverage for #semaglutide medications. Watch the full episode at cnb.cx/3SDuBp2 #oma #obesity #selecttrial

Top 6 barriers to #obesity treatment: inadequate finance, lack of obesity training, obesity not recognised as a disease, lack of specialist teams, lack of public awareness & the obesogenic environment.

🚨 #UHC isn’t possible without addressing these! #HealthforAll

Pardon the low definition TV 😅 Bloomberg Eli Lilly and Company U.S. FDA

“Lilly’s #diabetes drug approved for #weightloss by FDA”

#tirzepatide #obesity

#ZEPBOUND

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I hope you'll be able to join us on World Diabetes Day to talk about diabetes stigma and the global efforts aimed at addressing it! It's going to be a great conversation! diaTribe

#EndDiabetesStigma #diabetes #T1D #T2D #WorldDiabetesDay #NDAM

The Obesity Action Coalition has long been representing individuals who are affected by the disease of obesity.

Take a look at a moment from 10 years ago in 2013, when OAC advocates spent the day on Capitol Hill to secure support for The Treat and Reduce Obesity Act. #TROA

50 years ago, it was plain that #BrominatedVegetableOil is not a safe #FoodAdditive . Britain banned it. Others followed. This week, U.S. FDA got around to it. We need “a more nimble process for evaluating chemicals in the food supply,” says FDA. Correct.
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