Expert Interviews

Monu Khanna, MD, offers 3 takeaways for primary care: address obesity as root cause, reduce stigma, and explore new treatments to reduce cardiovascular risk.

Dr Khanna discusses why obesity should be treated as a chronic disease in primary care and how early conversations can help prevent cardiometabolic complications.

Libon, a professor at the New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging at Rowan University, says the refined approach to cognitive assessment is widely available.

Dr Khanna discusses how PCPs can use patient relationships to tailor lifestyle advice and manage obesity-related cardiometabolic disease.

Dr Khanna urges early screening for cardiometabolic risk in patients with obesity and highlights the role of primary care in prevention and education.

Without a shift in the approach to disease prevention and management in the US, the health system won't be able to handle the burden of our morbidity, says Richard Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, MBA.

Richard Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, MBA, led the development of lifestyle medicine guidelines to treat or even reverse prediabetes and type 2 diabetes.

Monu Khanna, MD, discusses the benefits of behavioral strategies, including yoga, breathwork, and dancing, in reducing cardiovascular disease risk in patients with obesity.

Lead author for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine's new clinical practice guideline discusses the broad endorsement for the recommendations across participating groups.