Kathleen M. McTigue

TL;DR: An analytic framework of obesity screening components with key questions and eligibility criteria was developed and the conscious measurement of weight status to clinically address body weightand treatment was reviewed to determine the effectiveness of adult obesity screening.

TL;DR: Among patients with severe obesity, a lifestyle intervention involving diet combined with initial or delayed initiation of physical activity resulted in clinically significant weight loss and favorable changes in cardiometabolic risk factors.

TL;DR: Considering obesity as a body mass index of 30 or higher may lead to misinterpretation of individual and population risks, and much of the obesity-related mortality and coronary heart disease risk was mediated by diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia.

TL;DR: Although obesity is increasing in older U.S. adults, treatment is controversial in this age group and evidence concerning obesity's health‐related risks, diagnostic methods, and treatment outcomes in older individuals is examined.

TL;DR: There is, however, always a point at which increasing BMI is associated with increasing mortality risk, but the BMI at which this occurs varies across studies and populations, and a number of studies have found no significant relationship between BMI in the overweight range and mortality rate.