Medical weight management protects against weight gain during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: American adults have gained weight during the COVID-19 pandemic. Little is known about how patients who are medically managed for overweight and obesity, including patients who are prescribed antiobesity pharmacotherapy, have fared. To assess the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on weight, food choices, and health behaviors in patients receiving medical treatment for overweight or obesity. Adult patients treated at an urban academic weight management center between 1 May 2019 and 1 May 2020 were electronically surveyed between 23 February and 23 March 2021. The survey assessed changes in weight, eating, behaviors, and the use of antiobesity medications (AOMs) following issuance of social distancing/stay-at-home policies in March 2020. In 970 respondents, median percent weight change for those ta

SUBMITTER: Barenbaum SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9535662 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature