Mexican Clinical Practice Guidelines for Adult Overweight and Obesity Management.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To develop Mexico's first methodologically rigorous clinical practice guideline for the management of adult overweight and obesity. The target audiences are interdisciplinary healthcare professionals across healthcare systems who are the first point of contact for patients with obesity in Mexico, patients, and health system decision makers.

Recent findings

A review of recent international obesity clinical practice guidelines and an expert consensus process identified: i) common recommendations appropriate for implementation in Mexico and ii) knowledge gaps requiring the formulation of new recommendations. In all, 20 new recommendations and 20 good practice statements were developed using the GRADE Evidence-to-Decision Framework and expert consensus. Overweight and ob

SUBMITTER: Chavez-Manzanera EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11522083 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature