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Systematic Reviews on Obesity
Follow the links below to summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for prevention programs and treatments for obesity.
Updated January 2012
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| Title: | Interventions for preventing weight gain after smoking cessation |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | When giving up smoking, most people put on weight. Many smokers are concerned about this and say it may put them off making an attempt quit. Some studies show that weight gain also leads to people resuming smoking after an initially successful quit atte... |
| Date: | Oct 2011 |
| Title: | Effects of progestin-only birth control on weight |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Progestin-only contraceptives (POCs) can be used by women who cannot or should not take the hormone estrogen. Many POCs are long acting, cost less than some other methods, and work well to prevent pregnancy. Some people worry that weight gain is a side ... |
| Date: | Sep 2010 |
| Title: | Hormones for birth control in overweight or obese women |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Excess body weight has become a problem around the world. Being overweight or obese may affect how well hormonal birth control works to prevent pregnancy. Hormonal birth control includes birth control pills, the skin patch, the vaginal ring, implants,... |
| Date: | Apr 2010 |
| Title: | Interventions to change the behaviour of health professionals and the organisation of care to promote weight reduction in overweight and obese adults |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Although obesity used to be confined largely to high income countries, the proportion of people who are overweight or obese is now increasing globally. Obesity is a major risk factor for a number of chronic diseases, which have negative consequences for... |
| Date: | Jun 2009 |
| Title: | Long-term effects of weight-reducing drugs in hypertensive patients |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | For overweight patients with elevated blood pressure doctors often recommend weight reduction. Drugs such as orlistat, sibutramine or rimonabant are sometimes suggested to assist in weight reduction and blood pressure reduction. Orlistat and sibutramine... |
| Date: | May 2009 |
| Title: | Long-term drug pharmacotherapy for obesity and overweight |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | This review assessed the long-term benefits and risks of approved anti-obesity drugs in clinical trials of 1 to 4 years duration. Sixteen orlistat (10,631 patients), 10 sibutramine (2623 patients) and four rimonabant (6635 patients) studies were examine... |
| Date: | Dec 2006 |
| Title: | Pharmacotherapy for weight loss in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Obesity is closely related to type 2 diabetes and weight reduction is an important part of the care delivered to obese persons with diabetes. This review of drugs for weight loss among adults with type 2 diabetes revealed weight loss of between 2.0 and ... |
| Date: | Jun 2004 |
| Title: | Long-term non-pharmacological weight loss interventions for adults with prediabetes |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Persons with blood glucose levels that are abnormal, but not in the range of persons with diabetes, are said to have prediabetes, which often precedes the development of type 2 diabetes. Most persons with prediabetes are overweight and obesity worsens t... |
| Date: | May 2004 |
| Title: | Metformin monotherapy for type 2 diabetes mellitus |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Our review confirm that tight glycaemia control with metformin monotherapy is one of the main therapeutic options for type 2 diabetes in patients with overweight or obesity, since it may prevent some events of macrovascular and microvascular complicatio... |
| Date: | Sep 2003 |
| Title: | Psychological interventions for overweight or obesity |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Several psychological methods are used to try and help people who are overweight or obese to lose weight. This review found that cognitive behaviour therapy and behaviour therapy significantly improved the success of weight loss for these people. Cognit... |
| Date: | Jun 2003 |
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