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

• Published in: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 308 - 316
• Main Authors: Pendse, Jay, Vallejo‐García, Franco, Parziale, Andrew, Callanan, Mae, Tenner, Craig, Alemán, José O.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.02.2021
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Anti-Obesity Agents - therapeutic use; Cardiovascular disease; Cohort analysis; Cohort Studies; Comorbidity; Data warehouses; Diabetes; Drug therapy; Endocrinology; Exercise; FDA approval; Female; Gastrointestinal surgery; Humans; Hypertension; Life Style; Lifestyles; Male; Middle Aged; Obesity; Obesity - drug therapy; Overweight; Participation; Patients; Physical fitness; Retrospective Studies; Veterans; Veterans Health; Weight control; Weight Loss; United States > US

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 obe...