U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommends Multicomponent Behavioral Interventions for Obese Adults

Background

The USPSTF has updated its 2012 guideline on managing obesity in adults. The USPSTF focused on interventions that can be initiated in primary care settings and did not address surgical interventions.

Key Point

Based on a review of 89 clinical trials in which intensive behavioral interventions for weight loss or weight loss maintenance were assessed and 35 trials in which pharmacotherapy was combined with behavior-based interventions, clinicians should offer overweight adult patients (body-mass index, ≥30 kg/m²) intensive, multicomponent, behavioral weight loss interventions (B recommendation). The USPSTF made no recommendation regarding weight loss medications.