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Indira Maisnam, EASD 2018 – latest advances in obesity and diabetes

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Published Online: Oct 3rd 2018

Indira Maisnam discusses the current knowledge of obesity in diabetes and the effects some treatments have on weight management.

Questions:

1) Why do you think that the effect of pharmacotherapy in obesity for weight loss is just satisfactory and not excellent? (0:12)

2) What are the other options that we may explore? (1:07)

3) How does the adipose tissue work in the homeostasis of body weight? (1:33)

4) Do the treatments that are currently available for diabetes effect adipose tissue? (2:25)

5) What is in the pipeline with regards to adipose tissue? (3:20)

Speaker disclosure: Indira Maisnam has nothing to disclose in relation to this video interview.

Filmed at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) annual meeting, Berlin, Germany, 2018

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