Always love Ted Kyle 's powerful insights into how #weightbias #weightstigma are affecting #health and #obesity care

#CCOM2024

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Looking forward to presenting on how #WeightBias and stigma interfere with treatment and prevention for #obesity . At the Columbia Cornell Obesity program today. Download my slides here:
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Amgen goes all in on injectable obesity treatment MariTide statnews.com/2024/05/02/amg…

'My insurance asked for an 'eating plan' before they will continue to approve GLP1. This is crazy. What a dumb question. My eating plan is to 'not-eat-junk' which the GLP1 helps me to do.'

- Patient, shared with permission

The brain drain will come, and it won't be reversed when it does. The old ways of medical practice are already long gone. Patients no longer have 'their' Doctor, the one who they could call 24/7 with an emergency. He or she has retired because he or she couldn't stand to be…

Five questions for today’s hearings with UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty, including if their size is safe for the country + if their for-profit mindset is good for patients. $UNH

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Would you be willing to endure seven hours by 40 lawmakers for 8 figures a year?

statnews.com/2024/05/01/law… This is a good summary of the testimony in Congress by UNH CEO Andrew Witty. The Senators were appropriately concerned by the fact that the breach could have been easily prevented with multi-factor authorization of a portal.
They were also concerned…

Please try to attend this important presentation by Jane Blazeby

Meeting link:
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Meeting number: 161 787 1826
Password: innovations

Another plug for the #weight centric management of disease. Any disease.

If your #GI #cardio #psychiatry #obgyn #medical society is due to draft new guidelines, pls reach out! You should have an #obesity expert on board

Dr. Nasreen Alfaris presenting weight loss effects of medications & bariatric surgery

Safety of Bariatric Surgery in Obesity Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy - ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This suggests that an important reason why GLP-1-based drugs and bariatric surgery are so effective is that they substantially reduce the degree to which the brain fights back against weight loss.

This study is the first to examine the effect of bariatric surgery on risk of future ocular disease development across a large population, showing evidence that bariatric surgery may reduce development of multiple ocular diseases. nature.com/articles/s4143…
#Ophthalmology #Obesity