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Letter from the Executive Director
Dear Colleagues,
I hope you are all enjoying the holiday season with your loved ones. As the year winds down, I want to take a moment to reflect on our accomplishments during TOS’s Annual Meeting at ObesityWeek℠ 2016 in New Orleans. This year we had a strong turnout with nearly 4,900 attendees, many of whom presented groundbreaking science for TOS and ASMBS as part of more than 1,200 abstracts. Here are some other key figures from the meeting:
Attendees:
- Domestic to U.S. (82.79%) vs. International (17.21%)
- International attendees from 57 countries
- 103 different primary professions, with the top five citing 1) clinician, 2) surgeon, 3) scientist/researcher, 4) physician and 5) integrated health provider.
- 157 different specialty areas, clustering in 1) bariatric surgery, 2) general surgery, 3) psychology, 4) endocrinology and 5) basic science.
Sponsors (Thank you!): 4 Platinum, 4 Bronze, 15 Supporting
Exhibitors (Thank you!):
Partners (Thank you!):
- Level 1: ASMBS
- Level 2: 11 partners
- Level 3: 21 partners
You may have also noticed the substantial news coverage that comes as a result of the top-notch science submitted to the meeting combined with our staff and volunteer efforts. This year news stories ran in numerous top-tier outlets including The New York Times, Vox, TIME, Huffington Post, and many others. Further, we had several special meeting series published in Healio, MedPage Today, ConscienHealth and HealthCentral. I encourage you to take some time to review these meeting highlights, as there may be many stories you have not seen yet.
Further, I’m pleased to share that we reached a record 69.3 million people with news and information about ObesityWeek on Twitter alone. Thank you to the 3,285 participants using the #OW2016 hashtag on Twitter, and the many more who shared on Facebook and Instagram.
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Six years following the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendation that clinicians screen and treat (or refer) children age six and older for obesity, most U.S. children still do not receive evidence-based care for obesity. The finding comes alongside key recommendations for next steps to address the epidemic in a new consensus report representing the input of 43 multidisciplinary, cross-sector stakeholders, including clinical, scientific, policy and insurance experts. The experts identify several barriers to care impeding implementation of the USPSTF recommendation, and point to family-based behavioral therapy, an integrated chronic care model and a multi-disciplinary care team as three key components to address childhood obesity.
The Obesity Society (TOS), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Institute for Healthy Childhood Weight spearheaded the conference of 43 cross-sector stakeholders in July of 2015 at AAP national offices in Elk Grove Village, IL. The recommendations are now available online in advance of the January 2017 issue of Obesity, TOS’s scientific journal.
“The consensus group was successful in identifying several barriers to care that impede widespread implementation of the USPSTF recommendation, including lack of health insurance coverage for treatment.” said Denise E. Wilfley, PhD, lead author of the paper, Scott Rudolph University professor at Washington University School of Medicine, TOS Fellow and past-chair of TOS Pediatric Obesity Section, and member of the AAP Institute for Healthy Childhood Weight Advisory Board.
Despite substantial evidence that obesity warrants early and comprehensive treatment, many health plans do not provide coverage for childhood obesity treatment, say researchers.
“When coverage is offered it is often limited in scope and does not support treatments of adequate duration or breadth to effectively impact children with obesity,” continued Dr. Wilfley. “We cannot reach USPSTF-recommended care for children unless we advance efforts to secure payment for that care.”
The conference brought together all stakeholders to address these challenges, including public and private insurance providers. Read more in TOS press release.
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At a congressional briefing last week, the Milken Institute released a stark economic analysis of the costs piling up for untreated obesity. Obesity now costs the U.S. economy $1.4 trillion dollars. Those costs come almost entirely from the complications that result when obesity goes untreated and progresses to cause other diseases.
The money spent on evidence-based medical care to treat obesity itself is negligible by comparison. Most of the estimated $64 billion spent on weight management was direct consumer spending on diet and weight loss products that have little long-term effect on the progression of obesity.
For the most part, health plans resist paying for obesity care and then pay tremendous sums for costs of the complications of untreated obesity. Continue Reading…
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In this special diabetes news feature published annually by USA Today, you will find stories of personal triumph resulting from evidence-based diabetes care, a detailed timeline of diabetes milestones dating back to the first century A.D., a feature story about how the American Diabetes Association-CVS partnership is working to improve healthy living, and much more.
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Did you get your professional photo taken at the photobooth at ObesityWeek in New Orleans? The photo are now available for download online here.
You may have also participated in the New-Orleans-themed photobooth at the AfterDark at Generations Hall. Take a look at the great fun ObesityWeek attendees had as part of this booth, just a sampling of the excitement of the full conference. Make sure to mark your calendars to participate next year in Washington, DC!
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ObesityWeek℠ 2016 was a great success and we could not have done it without you! Now it's time to look to the future and start planning for our 2017 meeting. The Annual Program Committee is now accepting suggestions for topic areas, symposia and potential speakers. We would like to request your symposia suggestions right away!
These submitted symposia will be highlighted in the 2017 program. The Program Committee will continue to develop key lectures and symposia; the topics and speakers for those sessions will be informed by suggestions from TOS Sections, members and partners. Therefore, please submit your ideas through the symposia suggestion submission system, as the Program Committee relies heavily on these suggestions to develop the program. The deadline for submission is Dec. 23, 2016 at 11:59pm EST.
Visit the Symposium & Speaker Suggestion Site here, and read the submission guidelines here.
| Congratulations to the 2016 Diversity Tour Poster Award Winners
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Research in Diverse Populations Section
The Research in Diverse Population Section is pleased to congratulate the recipients of the top 10 abstracts from the 6th Annual Diversity Tour. The goal of the Diversity Tour is to highlight work in the field of obesity that includes a focus on diverse populations. Here is the list of award recipients and their abstract titles:
- William Heerman: A Qualitative Study of Pregnant Latina Women’s Perceptions of Maternal Gestational Weight Gain (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)
- Megan Hetherington-Rauth: Comparison of Direct Measures of Adiposity with Indirect Measures for Predicting Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Preadolescent Girls (The University of Arizona)
- Carrie Howell: Body Composition and Mortality in Hispanic Adults (The University of Alabama at Birmingham)
- Erfan Khazaee: The Association Between Breakfast Consumption and Composition with Adiposity Measures in Hispanic College Freshmen (The University of Texas at Austin)
- Elissa Kim: Weight Status in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence: Associations with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Young Adulthood (The University of California San Diego)
- Elissa Kim: Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Predictors of Fatty Liver Disease in Young Adulthood (University of California San Diego)
- Chantis Mantilla: Insulin Superheroes Club – A Diabetes Prevention Program in Youth: Improvement Among Metabolic Parameters and Physical Fitness Outcomes after 16-Weeks of Lifestyle Intervention (The University of Tennessee, Health Science Center)
- Michelle Maurer: What are the associations between food served in the home and child diet in low-Income, ethnically diverse families? (The University of Texas, School of Public Health)
- Idia Thurston: The Scale Matters: Assessing Overweight and Obesity with Figure Rating Scales in a Diverse Sample of Young Adults (The University of Memphis)
- Alison Ventura: A pilot study to explore correlates of authoritative and indulgent feeding practices in Hispanic vs. white families of 2-6-year-old children (California Polytechnic State University)
Congratulations to all! You can read more about the research in the abstracts posted online.
The Section offers a special thank you to poster judges for making the poster awards a success.
The New York Times
Americans spend more than $30 billion a year on dietary supplements — vitamins, minerals and herbal products, among others — many of which are unnecessary or of doubtful benefit to those taking them. That comes to about $100 a year for every man, woman and child for substances that are often of questionable value.
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The Associated Press via CBS News
Progress in the U.S. against obesity, food poisoning and the spread of infections in hospitals has been uneven and disappointing, despite dedicated efforts to fight these health threats by the nation’s top public health agency.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a frank self-assessment of its campaign to focus on certain health problems, an effort it called “winnable battles.” While there have been clear successes in areas like smoking and teen pregnancy, other areas have seen little change or even gotten worse.
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HealthDay News
Primary care doctors should offer counseling about healthy lifestyle habits to prevent heart disease — even to adults who have a low or average risk of developing heart troubles, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force advises.
The task force is an influential, independent panel of national experts in prevention and evidence-based medicine.
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ConscienHealth
New “public service” advertising from a Swedish foundation features the brilliant physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking. But the advertising is more public nuisance than public service. Its objective appears to be promoting obesity awareness.
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Healio
Infants exposed to higher cortisol concentrations via breast milk are more likely to be leaner and taller in childhood vs. infants exposed to lower cortisol concentrations, with a greater effect in girls, according to findings published in Obesity.
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The Huffington Post
Overdoing it on the turkey and mashed potatoes might actually do more damage than popping your pants button.
One study even found that eating an unusually heavy and rich meal may quadruple an individual’s risk of having a heart attack, provided they already have other risk factors like high blood pressure and cholesterol.
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Dr. Sharma's Obesity Notes
We no doubt live in an era where bullying is not only deemed acceptable but may actually help get you into high public office.
Unfortunately, bullying is a tactic that is all too often used even by people who should know better — people, who have made it their mission to promoting a health agenda, and should be well aware of the health consequences (not to mention the humanistic or moral consequences) of bullying.
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TIME
The United States is experiencing a diabetes epidemic. Since 2008, the number of Americans with diabetes has risen by 2.2 million people, and the rate has increased rapidly with growing obesity.
Yet some states appear to be faring better than others.
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MedPage Today
Bariatric surgery was associated with a reduced risk of developing atrial fibrillation among obese individuals, researchers reported.
In a substudy of the multicenter, ongoing Swedish Obese Subjects, bariatric surgery patients had a 29 percent lower rate of developing atrial fibrillation compared to the nonsurgery group, during nearly 20 years of follow-up, according to lead author Shabbar Jamaly, M.D., of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and colleagues.
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