Endocrine Abstracts

Therapeutic options for patients with severe obesity are limited. Low energy meal replacement regimes can induce significant short-term weight loss and improvements in metabolic variables. We sought to estimate the effect size on adiposity and cardiovascular risk factors of a relatively inexpensive 24-week regime based on meal replacement with semi-skimmed milk in severely obese adults. A retrospective cohort analysis showed that of 206 patients in our hospital-based bariatric...