{
  "id": 3113784,
  "title": "Updated obesity guideline supports personalized care and continued use of effective weight-loss medications",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/updated-obesity-guideline-supports-personalized-care-and-continued",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-24T21:00:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-obesity-guideline-personalized-effective-weight.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense (VA/DoD) updated their obesity management guideline in 2025 to reflect advances in obesity assessment and treatments. The guideline emphasizes assessing health risks beyond body mass index (BMI) alone, using comprehensive lifestyle intervention as the foundation of care, and flexibly integrating medications, including GLP-1…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}