Full Description
Advances in Pharmacology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.
Contents
1. Obesity Therapeutic Landscape, Challenges, and Unmet Needs
Barto Buerguera
2. Diagnosis and Evaluation of Obesity for Therapeutic Selection
Marcio Griebeler
3. When to use First-Generation Anti-Obesity Medications?
Barto Buerguera and Marcio Griebeler
4. GLP-1 Receptor Agonists in our Clinics
Hamlet Gasoyan
5. Future Directions in Obesity Pharmacotherapy: Novel Targets and Pipeline Therapies
Yael Mauer
6. Destigmatizing Obesity: from language to the clinical environment
Ricardo Correa
7. Role of Nutrition and physical Activity in the Therapy of Obesity
David Creel
8. Behavioral and Lifestyle Strategies in Obesity Management and Post-Bariatric Follow-Up
Ariela Goldenshluger
9. The interpretation of Body-composition Metrics in Obesity
Ricardo Rosero
10. Digital Health, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Wearables in Obesity Care
Peminda Cabandugama
11. Metabolic Aging and Obesity: how Physiology Changes with Age
Willy Valencia
12. Endoscopic Bariatric and Metabolic Therapies
Stephen Firkins
13. What Patients Could Benefit from Bariatric Surgery?
Ricard Corceles
