Overweight and Obesity—Diagnosis and Treatment
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 5098
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to discuss new knowledge regarding the epidemiology of overweight and obesity and cutting-edge developments in the diagnosis and management of these conditions. The curated work of scientists working in this field will make a great contribution to the community. Our goal is to make this Special Issue the best forum for disseminating new research findings and for sharing innovative ideas on this topic.
This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) will focus on the current state of knowledge of overweight and obesity. Original research papers, papers with a detailed summary of one’s work, reviews, papers highlighting state-of-the-art developments, and conference papers are welcome. Articles dealing with new approaches to assess health risks related to obesity, new information about current treatment modalities, and lessons learned from current policies directed towards changing environmental hazards contributing to obesity are solicited.
You are welcome to send a tentative title and a short abstract to our Editorial Office ([email protected]) for evaluation before submission. Please note that selected full papers will still be subjected to a thorough and rigorous peer review.
Although coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has ravaged our world, obesity is the pandemic of the 21st century, with rates that continue to soar. Treatment strategies including high-intensity behavioral lifestyle interventions, pharmacotherapy, use of specific devices, non-surgical and surgical techniques continue to evolve our understanding and guide our practice. Prevention and effective management are critical to stemming any further increases in overweight and obesity, but they require identifying patients at risk of these conditions and tailoring treatments to patients’ individual risk status and preferences. Although the body mass index (BMI) is an excellent and easily measurable marker of adiposity, it does not capture the metabolic risk that excess adiposity may confer. Some researchers have suggested the use of other indexes to determine risks associated with obesity. With that in mind, are there other metrics or measures that we should be using to better capture morbidities linked to obesity? Should we be designing a risk calculator? As for diabetes (a disease that parallels obesity), can we model the outcomes of obesity? Based on clinical trial data, the true impact of our interventions is only partially known because of missing data and the lack of follow-up information. Should we be collecting and analyzing data differently to align with real-world patient management and outcomes? Further, should our priorities in identifying successful weight loss strategies focus on patient’s experience, quality of life, and well-being rather than exclusively on more concrete, objective changes such as diabetes remission (keeping in mind that they may go hand and hand)? In order to reduce the rates of obesity, we need to reduce certain environmental hazards. In this sense, what has worked so far and how, and have these environmental changes been durable? These and other issues will be discussed in this Special Issue on overweight and obesity.
Dr. Amy Elizabeth Rothberg
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- obesity
- lifestyle
- bariatric surgery
- metabolic risk
- health-related quality of life
- epidemiology
- risk assessment
- management
- weight loss
- biomarkers
- metrics
- health policies
- environment
