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With the new year kicking off, Americans all over the country are making resolutions to live healthier, more balanced lifestyles. But the question is how long will those resolutions last, and will they really make a difference in America’s growing obesity rate?

A new study done by the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that half of America will be considered obese within this decade. Although difficult to pinpoint the exact reason behind the alarming increase in numbers, a big part of it can do with unhealthy eating habits, sedentary lifestyles and lack of accessibility to healthier food options.

“I think what’s even more important is quality of life. When we start looking at quality of life and realize that we can’t do many of the things we want, like spending time with family or even just walking, then it becomes something bigger,” said Dr. Benjamin Clapp of El Paso Bariatric surgery.

The findings in that study suggest that by 2030, nearly 1 in 2 adults will be obese, with at least 35% of people in each state across America being considered obese.

“The good news is that this is completely treatable. It’s something that we can do something about whether that’s a surgical or non-surgical method but the patients really needs to get help and think about getting some help,” said Clapp.

Nearly 1 in 4 adults is projected to be severely obese, which means that person will weigh 100 pounds more than what is considered to be a healthy weight. The study also mentions that severe obesity will likely be most common among women, non-Hispanic black adults, and low-income adults who earn less than 50,000 dollars a year.

“When I talk to my patients about obesity I like to point out that that’s the root underlying cause of other complex medical issues such as diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, and high cholesterol,” said Clapp. He suggests making small lifestyle changes that can help in living a more balanced lifestyle.

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A novel risk calculator developed by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic encourages patients with both type 2 diabetes and obesity to weigh their treatment options for optimal long-term health.

Bariatric surgery, or weight loss surgery, has been recommended as a treatment option for people with concomitant type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity since 2016, when the American Diabetes Association first published a consensus report on the subject. But the therapy remains underutilized in clinical practice, eclipsed largely by standard medical care and lifestyle advice.

Bariatric surgeon Ali Aminian, MD, and colleagues at the Cleveland Clinic developed their new tool—the 10-year Individualized Diabetes Complications Risk Scores—in two phases over the course of two years, focusing on individualized recommendations based on patients’ current health status and evidence-based data. The first phase, which wrapped earlier this year and was published in JAMA in September, found that weight loss surgery in patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity was linked to a 40% lower risk of death and major adverse CV events in the decade following. Those patients also had better diabetes control, lost more weight and used fewer medications than their peers.

 
 

The same group of patients were used in phase two of the trial, which aimed to identify predictors for different health outcomes. Aminian and his team studied 26 unique risk factors for different outcomes, including risk of dying, and developed their risk calculator to estimate the likelihood of coronary heart disease, stroke, heart failure, kidney disease and mortality over 10 years.

“The calculator can be a useful tool for physicians and patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity,” Aminian said in a release. “It shows a patient’s risk of heart disease, stroke, heart failure, diabetic kidney disease and death over the next 10 years with usual care. It also shows how a patient’s risk of those adverse events could change after metabolic surgery.”

Aminian et al.’s results are being presented this week at the ObesityWeek 2019 international symposium in Las Vegas. The calculator will be accessible via the Cleveland Clinic Risk Calculator Library and as a smartphone application, BariatricCalc.

“Diabetes can be a devastating disease and combined with obesity, patients are at a high risk for cardiovascular complications,” Steven Nissen, MD, chief academic officer of the Heart & Vascular Institute at Cleveland Clinic, said in the release. “Metabolic surgery is an underutilized treatment for these patients. This calculator can help both physicians and patients quantify the risks and benefits of surgery and make the best decision for treatment.”

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