Framework for the pharmacological treatment of obesity and its complications from the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO)

Barbara McGowan; Andreea Ciudin; Jennifer L Baker; Luca Busetto; Dror Dicker; Gema Frühbeck; Gijs H Goossens; Matteo Monami; Paolo Sbraccia; Borja Martinez-Tellez; Euan Woodward; Volkan Yumuk

doi:10.1038/s41591-025-03765-w

Framework for the pharmacological treatment of obesity and its complications from the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO)

Nat Med. 2025 Oct;31(10):3229-3232. doi: 10.1038/s41591-025-03765-w.

Authors

Barbara McGowan^#¹, Andreea Ciudin^#^{2

3}, Jennifer L Baker⁴, Luca Busetto⁵, Dror Dicker⁶, Gema Frühbeck⁷, Gijs H Goossens⁸, Matteo Monami⁹, Paolo Sbraccia¹⁰, Borja Martinez-Tellez^{11

12}, Euan Woodward¹³, Volkan Yumuk¹⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Guys & St Thomas 's Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK. barbara.mcgowan@gstt.nhs.uk.
² Diabetes and Metabolism Research Group, VHIR, Endocrinology Department, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Autonomous University Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. andreea.ciudin@vallhebron.cat.
³ CIBERDEM (Instituto de Salud Carlos III), Madrid, Spain. andreea.ciudin@vallhebron.cat.
⁴ Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Copenhagen University Hospital-Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg, Frederiksberg, Denmark.
⁵ Department of Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
⁶ Internal Medicine D and Obesity Clinic, Hasharon Hospital-Rabin Medical Center. Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
⁷ Department of Endocrinology & Nutrition, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, CIBEROBN - Instituto de Salud Carlos III, IdiSNA, Pamplona, Spain.
⁸ Department of Human Biology, Institute of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM), Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
⁹ Diabetes Unit, Careggi Teaching Hospital and University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
¹⁰ Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
¹¹ Department of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Medicine, CIBIS Research Center, University of Almería, Almería, Spain.
¹² CIBEROBN, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Granada, Spain.
¹³ European Association for the Study of Obesity, Dublin, Ireland.
¹⁴ Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 41039115
DOI: 10.1038/s41591-025-03765-w

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