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Obesity and Psoriatic Disease

Mason Arbabi, MD and Juliana S. Simonetti, MD

Obesity is a clinically important comorbidity in psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. Excess adiposity contributes to systemic inflammation and cardiometabolic risk and may adversely affect disease severity and response to some systemic therapies. Intentional weight loss should be considered an

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Lifestyle and Incretin Therapy Advice for Rheumatologists

Jack Cush, MD

As GLP-1/GIP receptor agonists become standard co-management tools for obese patients with RA, PsA, axSpA, and gout, this JAMA Insights perspective by Kushner, et al. reframes lifestyle counseling as an adjunct to pharmacotherapy - a reversal of the traditional model. This has with direct

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Bariatric Surgery in the Era of GLP-1RA Overweight/obesity is a chronic multi-system disease that can impair physical and mental health. It now affects almost 1 in 3 Canadians. Multiple recent guidelines have therefore suggested using waist measurements, in addition to BMI, to https://t.co/RaXnQ2d9Yr
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Obesity management goes far beyond the number on the scale. Watch our Four Pillars of Weight Loss video series, part of this month’s The Obesity Imperative campaign. What Are the Four Pillars of Obesity Management? Building a Multidisciplinary Program for Obesity & Arthritis https://t.co/16v4JFVWWs
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Obesity Journal Club: Tuesday Nite Rheumatology The Obesity Journal Club explores the TOGETHER PsA and STEP 9 trials and what emerging evidence tells us about the relationship between obesity, weight loss, and rheumatic disease. Panelists discussed the results of these trials, https://t.co/3C1RLyRj0b
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ACR Updates Osteoarthritis Guidance

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The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) has released updated clinical guidance for the treatment and management of osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee, hip, and hand. The evidence-based recommendations update the 2019 ACR/Arthritis Foundation guideline and are designed to support individualized,

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Weight Loss Improves Psoriatic Disease Substantially! Even before the introduction of incretin therapy and bariatric surgery, many randomized and interventional studies (2019–2026) have consistently showed that weight loss produces clinically meaningful, dose-dependent https://t.co/BWeW7fzSC8
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Obesity in Axial Spondyloarthritis: what are we missing beyond the scale? Obesity in axSpA is not a minor comorbidity. While obesity is more often discussed in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) due to the psoriasis-adipose tissue link which is mechanistically better studied and https://t.co/bFkoPmc0pC
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JAMA Surgery analysis showed that between 2022-2024 bariatric surgery fell 34.1%, While GLP-1 use rose more than 140% over the same period. (SELECT trial showed semaglutide reduced major adverse cardiovascular events by 20% in overweight or obese adults without diabetes.) https://t.co/s3NRFY2R5w
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Waist size matters! Using NHANES data (1999-2018) the weight-adjusted waist index (WWI) calculated on 5582 CKD pts. WWI was signif assoc w/ all-cause mortality (adj HR  1.17) & CV (1.24); these assoc partially mediated by NLR (inflammation) ~6.6%, showing both central adiposity https://t.co/kNf4nqiD2a
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Bariatric Surgery in the Era of GLP-1RA

Satya Dash, MD

Weight loss with lifestyle changes alone is difficult to sustain for most people. One reason for this is the weight loss associated endocrine milieu, which can decrease energy expenditure and increase the drive to eat. Therefore, we frequently use medications and/or bariatric surgery.

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The Four Pillars of Weight Loss

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Dr. Lourdes Perez Chada
Watch our 'Four Pillars of Weight Loss' 8-part series as part of this month's The Obesity Imperative campaign.
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