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Obesity - Evidence
Evidence on clinical assessment of adults who are overweight or obese
- The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence considered recommendations from a number of guidelines on the assessment of adults and mature adolescents with overweight or obesity and concluded [National Collaborating Centre for Primary Care, 2006]:
- Initial assessment should aim to identify individuals at highest risk, who have the potential to gain health benefits with weight loss and maintenance of that weight loss.
- In adults who are overweight and obese, individuals at highest risk and with the potential to gain health benefits include those with current significant comorbidities, and those at high risk of developing significant comorbidities in the future.
- In adults, reasons for energy imbalance are environment, genes, stress and psychological factors, current medication, life stage (early childhood and adolescence, pregnancy and childbirth, menopause), and life events (stopping smoking, marriage, giving up sport, holidays).
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