Drug Topics March 18, 2025
On both an individual and societal level, researchers explored how social, cultural, and ethnic determinants impact the treatment and management of obesity.
Addressing non-traditional risk factors, such as social determinants or gender and racial barriers, may be a more effective approach to preventing and treating obesity, according to data published in Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases.1 If solutions follow this non-traditional approach, researchers believe community programs and national policies will create more effective obesity interventions as well as treatment of similar diseases.
“[Obesity] has reached epidemic proportions worldwide, with more than 1 billion adults expected to be living with obesity by 2030,” wrote authors of the study. “In addition to increasing the risk of metabolic, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, and some cancers,...
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