#44: Obesity Medication Overview from AACE 2017
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2017
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Master the safe and effective use of obesity medications with Endocrinologist, Dr. Karl Nadolsky (co-author of 2016 AACE Obesity guidelines), Director of the Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolic Institute at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. We get under the hood of each FDA approved obesity medication plus some of our normal hijinks. Check out episode #23 for a more general overview of obesity.
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Time Stamps
00:00 Intro
03:12 Picks of the week
08:44 Rapid fire questions
13:00 Counsel patients about obesity
14:40 Pathophysiology of obesity
18:00 Case
22:46 Phentermine/topiramate (Qsymia)
26:20 Bupropion/naltrexone (Contrave)
29:18 Liraglutide (Saxenda)
34:32 Orlistat (Alli, Xenical)
37:35 Cost issues
40:18 Lifelong medical therapy for obesity
42:44 Dr. Nadolsky’s take home points
44:45 The Curbsiders recap and discuss their experience with obesity medications
52:28 Outro
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| 0:00.0 | Why or list at why or list at I mean because it was a so I asked Dr. Nodalsky about it |
| 0:07.5 | He's taking it before and he thinks the side effects are a little bit overblown |
| 0:11.9 | I do not mean that as a pun. Oh no |
| 0:15.9 | Just can't even help yourselves |
| 0:18.1 | Hello and welcome back to the curbsiders |
| 0:32.1 | Hola! The internal medicine podcast that uses expert interviews to bring you clinical |
| 0:37.6 | pearls and practice changing knowledge |
| 0:39.9 | I'm Dr. Matthew Wato here with my co-hosts |
| 0:42.9 | Dr. Stuart Brigham. Well hello Matthew how are you doing today? |
| 0:46.8 | Doing well great Dr. Paul Williams |
| 0:49.5 | I can Matthew Stuart great to be with you guys as always |
| 0:55.3 | Paul how's the family? The family of the kids |
| 1:00.7 | Oh yeah I forgot Paul said he was going to pretend he is Paul how are your two sons? |
| 1:07.0 | Oh the potential be a killer bit they're mediocre |
| 1:10.4 | they're really I've neither filled with pride nor disappointment they just they |
| 1:14.5 | exist and occupy space in my home |
| 1:20.1 | I feel really bad that I killed that bit I'm sorry |
| 1:23.8 | We're probably going to try to revive that sometime in the future |
| 1:26.3 | Okay yeah we'll try to get maybe the audience will forget we know I'm sorry I wasn't ready for it |
| 1:30.1 | Yeah sorry Paul how are the kids? It's not gonna work now |
| 1:36.7 | Okay let's get to a listener let's get to a listener email hopefully you can cut that out |
| 1:43.1 | Sorry, how did we pronounce this Stuart? Well you pronounce it sorry |
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