MedCity News September 23, 2024
To conduct meaningful research, we must be sure to view these studies through patients’ eyes. The patient perspective — in all its diversity — must be embedded into clinical trials from the very start.
Recent estimates reveal that more than 1 billion people worldwide, including nearly 880 million adults and 159 million children, are living with obesity. It is a global health crisis that affects low- and middle-income countries as much as prosperous nations. Indeed, in low-/middle-income countries, it is common to find undernutrition and obesity co-existing not just within the same communities but within the same households. That is because many lower-cost foods are also lower in nutrient quality and higher in fat, sugar, and salt content, making...