Obesity Medicine

Obesity treatment evolves as GLP-1 medication use surges 587%, while bariatric surgery rates decline significantly. A new analysis parses the trends.

ADA 2025: Once-monthly dosing led to significant weight loss in adults with obesity, with or without type 2 diabetes, reported researchers.

Viking Therapeutics initiates phase 3 trials for VK2735, a promising dual incretin agonist targeting obesity and other metabolic disorders, based on strong phase 2 findings.

ADA 2025: Mifepristone lowered HbA1c levels by about 1.5% over 24 weeks vs placebo among participants with hypercortisolism and inadequately controlled T2D.

ADA 2025: The combination of the GLP-1 RA and novel monoclonal antibody yielded 92.8% of total weight loss from fat mass and 22.1% decrease in baseline weight.

ADA 2025: Orforglipron lowered HbA1C by an average of 1.3% to 1.6% across doses, with improvements seen as early as 4 weeks, in a phase 3 trial.

ADA 2025: An intervention to emphasize weight-related care in primary care settings eliminated weight gain at the population level, researchers report.

Weight cycling significantly raises heart failure and metabolic disease risks, independent of baseline overweight, underscoring the importance of stable weight strategies.

Advances in obesity pharmacotherapy will be the focus of numerous late-breaking science sessions at ADA 2025; snapshots of 5 studies follow.

The ADA unveils the association's first Standards of Care for Overweight and Obesity, with a chapter on weight stigma and bias one of the first released.