Obesity Pharmacotherapy is Effective in the Veterans Affairs Patient Population: A Local and Virtual Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Obesity is a major public health challenge, and the US military veteran population is disproportionately affected. Using deidentified records from a local weight management clinic and a national clinical data repository, obesity pharmacotherapy use and effectiveness for weight loss and obesity comorbidities in this vulnerable population were assessed.

Methods

During the initial year of the local clinic, 43 records with monthly follow-up of MOVE! lifestyle intervention augmented by obesity pharmacotherapy were found. Nationally, more than 2 million records of prescribed obesity pharmacotherapy compared with metformin as control were identified. Records with detailed documentation of weight trends from 1 year before to 1 year after the prescription date for further a

SUBMITTER: Pendse J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8112812 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature