9789819616503 - Drugs for Medical Management of Obesity: A Machine-Generated Literature Overview (1 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book covers pharmacological activity and the role of the medications used for the medical management of obesity. The chapters provide information on the prevalence of obesity, basic principles of obesity management, a brief history of anti-obesity medications (AOMs), and discontinuation of AOMs due to their safety concerns. Further chapters include information on currently approved AOMs for obesity management by healthcare regulatory authorities including their effect on weight loss and other important clinical parameters, short-term and long-term use of AOMs, medications for genetic obesity, and the use of AOMs in obesity with associated co-morbidities as per their safety considerations and contraindications. A separate chapter is on drugs that are either under a clinical trial phase or awaiting approval.The auto-summaries have been generated by a recursive clustering algorithm via the Dimensions Auto-summarizer by Digital Science handled by Subject Matter Experts and the external editor. The editor of this book selected which SN content should be auto-summarized and decided its order of appearance. Please be aware that the auto-summaries consist of original sentences, but are not representative of the original paper, since we do not show the full length of the publication. Please note that only published SN content is represented here and that machine-generated books are still at an experimental stageThe book is relevant for healthcare and pharmaceutical professionals.