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IMPROVE 2022 International Meeting on pathway-related obesity: Vision of excellence.
Clin. Obes. 14:e12659 (2024)
Nearly 90 clinicians and researchers from around the world attended the first IMPROVE 2022 International Meeting on Pathway-Related Obesity. Delegates attended in person or online from across Europe, Argentina and Israel to hear the latest scientific and clinical developments in hyperphagia and severe, early-onset obesity, and set out a vision of excellence for the future for improving the diagnosis, treatment, and care of patients with melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) pathway-related obesity. The meeting co-chair Peter Kühnen, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany, indicated that change was needed with the rapidly increasing prevalence of obesity and the associated complications to improve the understanding of the underlying mechanisms and acknowledge that monogenic forms of obesity can play an important role, providing insights that can be applied to a wider group of patients with obesity. World-leading experts presented the latest research and led discussions on the underlying science of obesity, diagnosis (including clinical and genetic approaches such as the role of defective MC4R signalling), and emerging clinical data and research with targeted pharmacological approaches. The aim of the meeting was to agree on the questions that needed to be addressed in future research and to ensure that optimised diagnostic work-up was used with new genetic testing tools becoming available. This should aid the planning of new evidence-based treatment strategies for the future, as explained by co-chair Martin Wabitsch, Ulm University Medical Center, Germany.
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Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
Keywords
Mc4r Pathway ; Early‐onset Obesity ; Genetic Obesity ; Hyperphagia ; Severe Obesity
ISSN (print) / ISBN
1758-8103
e-ISSN
1758-8111
Journal
Clinical Obesity
Quellenangaben
Volume: 14,
Article Number: e12659
Publisher
Wiley
Non-patent literature
Publications
Reviewing status
Peer reviewed
Institute(s)
Institute of Diabetes and Obesity (IDO)
Grants
Rhythm Pharmaceuticals