The Department of Endocrinology, 
The Bariatric Pyramid: A framework for therapeutic targets.
- Department of Endocrinology, Bharti Hospital, Karnal, India and University Center for Research & Development, Chandigarh University, Mohali, India.
- Department of Endocrinology, Dayanand Medical College, Ludhiana, Punjab, India.
- Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India and Non communicable disease unit, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- Director and Consultant Endocrinologist, Apollo Excelcare Hospitals, Guwahati, Assam, India.
- Department of Endocrinology, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, India.
- Department of Endocrinology, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Pondicherry, India.
JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association Vol. 73 · Issue 7 · pp. 1546-1547
PMID 37469081 DOI 10.47391/jpma.23-51
Cite This Article
Sanjay Kalra, Saurabh Arora, Nitin Kapoor, Manash P Baruah, Saurabh Arora, Ashok Kumar Das. The Bariatric Pyramid: A framework for therapeutic targets. JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association. 2023;73(7):1546-1547. doi:10.47391/jpma.23-51
Abstract
The Bariatric Pyramid is a model which serves to explain the goals of obesity management, act as a milestone for monitoring of therapy, and to benchmark the utility of various anti-obesity medications and interventions. Built upon a base of sustainability, it lists three more desired aspects of care: sufficiency (sufficient strength) safety and security. Each of the four aspects of the pyramid: sustainability, sufficiency safety and security have three angles, which allows the reader to understand them easily. The model that we propose is useful in training health care professionals, in therapeutic patient education, for assessing various anti-obesity therapies, and in reaching the right decision while managing obesity.
Keywords
- Anti-obesity medication
- clinical decision aid
- obesity
- overweight
- therapeutic patient education
- person centered care.
