Redesigning obesity trials for a chronic disease era

https://www.news-medical.net/whitepaper/20260417/Redesigning-obesity-trials-for-a-chronic-disease-era.aspx For much of its history, obesity research has struggled to find a place in clinical development. Too medical to dismiss outright, too entangled with lifestyle narratives to command the same seriousness as closely related conditions such as cardiovascular disease or diabetes. It has frequently been studied through a narrow lens – short trials, blunt endpoints, and the underlying assumption that weight loss was the only outcome that mattered.