New Tools for Weight-Loss Therapy Enable a More Robust Medical Model for Obesity Treatment: Rationale for a Complications-Centric Approach

Objective Recent advances in lifestyle intervention programs, pharmacotherapy, and bariatric surgery have enabled the development of medical models for the treatment of obesity. Regarding pharmacotherapy, in 2012 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved two new effective and safe weight-loss medications, phentermine/ topiramate extended release and lorcaserin, which has greatly augmented options for medically assisted weight loss. Methods...