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    This past June, the US Food and Drug Administration approved semaglutide, a glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist marketed as Wegovy, for chronic weight management based on results from the four 68-week STEP (Semaglutide Treatment Effect in People with obesity) trials. Now, the findings from a…

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    Black women remain underrepresented in weight-loss intervention studies and typically lose less weight compared with white women, but tailored interventions and engagement strategies can increase chances of success, according to a speaker.CDC data show Black women have the highest obesity prevalence in the United States compared with other groups and are the only race and sex subgroup with an

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    Weight-loss interventions may reduce risks for some cancers, cancer mortality and recurrence for people with obesity, according to a speaker at ObesityWeek 2021. Tanya Agurs-Collins, PhD, RD, program director of the health behavior research branch in the division of cancer control and population sciences at the National Cancer Institute, said some studies have found weight loss may have a

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    Black women remain underrepresented in weight-loss intervention studies and typically lose less weight compared with white women, but tailored interventions and engagement strategies can increase chances of success, according to a speaker.CDC data show Black women have the highest obesity prevalence in the United States compared with other groups and are the only race and sex subgroup with an

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    Black women remain underrepresented in weight-loss intervention studies and typically lose less weight compared with white women, but tailored interventions and engagement strategies can increase chances of success, according to a speaker.CDC data show Black women have the highest obesity prevalence in the United States compared with other groups and are the only race and sex subgroup with an

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    Researchers should consider six key questions to design an effective and culturally relevant weight-loss intervention that will reach and include historically underrepresented groups, according to a speaker.The pathway from obesity risk to treatment outcomes is influenced by disparities in the development of obesity, the uptake of treatment and the response to treatment, Monica L. Baskin, PhD,

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