A Women's health perspective on managing obesity

Veronica R Johnson; Chika V Anekwe; Tiffani Bell Washington; Shradha Chhabria; Lucy Tu; Fatima Cody Stanford

doi:10.1016/j.pcad.2023.04.007

A Women's health perspective on managing obesity

Prog Cardiovasc Dis. 2023 May-Jun:78:11-16. doi: 10.1016/j.pcad.2023.04.007. Epub 2023 Apr 27.

Authors

Veronica R Johnson¹, Chika V Anekwe², Tiffani Bell Washington³, Shradha Chhabria⁴, Lucy Tu⁵, Fatima Cody Stanford⁶

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States of America. Electronic address: veronica.johnson@nm.org.
² Massachusetts General Hospital, MGH Weight Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism Unit, Boston, MA, United States of America; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America.
³ Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America.
⁴ Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH, United States of America; Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States of America.
⁵ Department of Sociology, Department of History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America.
⁶ Department of Medicine-Neuroendocrine Unit, Pediatric Endocrinology, MGH Weight Center, Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Harvard, MA General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, United States of America.

Abstract

While the prevalence of obesity in US men and women is nearly equivalent, obesity management in women requires a different approach that considers age and life stage in development including sexual maturation/reproduction, menopause and post-menopause. In this review, the diagnosis and treatment of obesity using lifestyle modification, pharmacotherapy and metabolic and bariatric surgery are discussed from a women's health perspective, with emphasis on management during pregnancy and post-partum.

Keywords: Gender/sex; Management; Obesity; women's health.

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Review

MeSH terms

Bariatric Surgery* / adverse effects
Female
Humans
Male
Obesity / diagnosis
Obesity / epidemiology
Obesity / therapy
Pregnancy
Women's Health*

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